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Pulled Thread Work Gallery:
Curvilinear Designs
and Related Forms
© 2009 Lorelei Halley All rights reserved.
For distinction between pulled thread and drawn thread see compare. The initials LH indicate my original designs, worked by me.
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Designing for this kind of lace is a matter of juxtaposing areas containing differing kinds of holes, and varying this with surface stitchery of differing textures. Also some traditional stitches produce puffy or ridge effects, and this, too, adds to the interest when used judiciously. You want dense areas, different kinds of holes, simple holes and complex holes, and usually some textured surface embroidery to give relief and variety. This form of lace is relatively easy to design for, and there are several approaches historically and in the modern age.
Curvilinear designs are on this web page, geometric designs on another.
Curvilinear Designs:
One
approach for curvilinear design is to create fairly large simple shapes and fill
them with the chosen stitch. Choose a
surface embroidery stitch which has some width and texture to outline the filled
area. Begin by working the wide
outlining stitch around each area and then fill in the shapes with a pulled
stitch, hiding the beginning and ending tails of the pulled stitches under the already stitched
outline. It is also possible to
start by filling the area with a pulled stitch and then work the outline
stitch over the thread tails, covering and hiding them in the process (although
this is harder to do neatly). In either
case the outline stitching is not worked in tension.
pt39
Pulled thread work made and designed by Lorelei Halley
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670
675
674
She calls these last 2 "pulled thread samplers".
See her other work at:
http://stitchinfingers.ning.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=36ufhwlk95fcr
Curvilinear Design with background filled in:
A second approach,
again with curvilinear design, is to make a motif in a simple shape and leave it
unworked. The background is then
filled with one pulled stitch. The
unworked motifs may be outlined and some surface stitching can be done on the
motif to lend some realism. For
both of these forms one can make a simple silhouette shape of any plant or
animal motif that you like, even starting with a photo and just using the
outline of the figures -- the family dog or cat, a family photo, your house,
etc.
pt 30 Pulled thread embroidery made by and designed by Lorelei Halley
Curvilinear Design outlined in double back stitch:
Some
historic examples show motifs outlined in double back stitch (similar to shadow
work) and then fill the shapes with complex satin stitch grounds (damask stitches),
with pulled thread stitches in the ground areas of the design (outside the
motifs). (See Fangel Winckler and the DMC Encyclopedia of Needlework for
examples of this kind of design.)
A more modern
approach is to use the pulled stitches somewhat randomly as an irregular
background to surface embroidery.
Or one can fill in irregular areas, arranged randomly, with pulled
stitches, and work scattered surface stitches as a foil to the pulled stitches.
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Related Forms
Schwalm
A peasant or folk embroidery style from Germany using flower shapes and hearts as motifs, which are outlined in chain stitch and coral knot. Inside the motifs some fabric threads may or may not be cut (to accentuate the holes) and pulled thread stitches are worked on the remaining threads. Surface stitchery is added in the form of flowing lines and curlicues. The designs are charming and pretty, intended for household linen, and usually worked white on white. This style has gained in popularity recently and several books have been written about it in the last few years. It is a hybrid form, with drawn thread and pulled thread elements. Hessenstickerei is similar to Schwalm, but not exactly the same.
Naversom
Swedish birch bark embroidery is also a combination of drawn thread work with pulled thread work. One starts by removing threads both horizontally and vertically from the fabric, usually remove 2 leave 3, remove 2 leave 3 intact across the whole fabric. Then faggot and reverse faggot are worked to accentuate the holes and bind the remaining threads, and darning stitches are used to fill in some holes and recreate solid cloth. The designs are always geometric.
To see more pulled thread work see stitchinfingers pulled thread group. Various members have albums of Pulled thread work, or have given their pieces that tag (and a search can be done on that tag).
http://stitchinfingers.ning.com/group/pulledthreadwork
MargeB
http://maggies-textiles.blogspot.com
Grace Lister's photo page on stitchinfingers
http://stitchinfingers.ning.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=36ufhwlk95fcr
Stefania Bressan
Schwalm
http://www.angolostefania.it
Carolyne Foley's blog
She has a wide variety of different styles of drawn thread and pulled thread
work, all very well made.
http://www.carorose.typepad.com
Look for tags "my embroidery" and "stitch explorer 2009".
http://carorose.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/03/drawn-pulled.html
drawn and pulled corner
http://carorose.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54ed11f4b883301156e3c324e970c-pi
the actual piece
Ann Clare mostly Schwalm Her stitchinfingers photo page:
http://stitchinfingers.ning.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=00rudpdy3eom2
Pam
a pulled thread sampler:
http://stitchinfingers.ning.com/photo/2105845:Photo:50345
Sue dulle some pulled thread
Blog: http://sudukc.wordpress.com/
Website:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sudukc/
D. Paula Banerji
some drawn thread, Hardanger, and Schwalm
http://stitchinfingers.ning.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=2b0755x0rg44q
Mishar
pulled thread, Hardanger, and naversom
http://stitchinfingers.ning.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=0w90sqbiez1es
See the Nordic Needle website for books http://www.nordicneedle.com/
http://www.ogna.org/Gallery2/v/Members/Jay+Joanne/of_50_590_442h.jpg.html
http://www.annatextiles.ch/newslet/news06/n06_91.jpg
The German word for pulled thread is Ajour: http://www.karinsstickstube.de/
http://www.masterstitch.co.uk/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=90
A combination of drawn thread and pulled thread: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NKoGjY6rLGQ/SXzRDXEhKCI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/RXmg2WqICVo/s1600-h/Piece+1.JPG
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NKoGjY6rLGQ/SXOKcUAwqdI/AAAAAAAAAYU/z5XmknaM8SY/s1600-h/Sampler+JC1.JPG
http://www.fineneedleworks.com/crownofpearls.html
http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/ID/DresdenID.html
Other Schwalm and Naversom:
http://www.thehendricks.net/schwalm.htm
http://www.jmddesigns.co.nz/NAVHIS.HTM
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