Quoting Sue Clemenger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Well, speaking as Sue the flower junkie, and not Susan the flower junkie <g>, no, not really. I've done collar and cuffs in an interlacing linear pattern of columbines (from a mid-16th century boy's shirt in the V&A), and will some day do columbine slips for a Helena Snackenburg (sp???) inspired outfit, but hadn't considered the style you mentioned below. If only because, in part, I find the flowers so interesting in profile....;o) The pattern from the boy's shirt is actually done in very tiny cross stitch. I believe mine worked out to about 30 stitches/inch, done using a single strand of royal blue Soie Cristale silk. I charted the design out for myself, using a delightful closeup of the collar that I just happened to find in a generalized overview-of-embroidery book from our local library. I have my theories about that design, which I hope to make into an article for competition at some point....(ah, the bliss of research ;o)
Cool! (we Sue/Susan/Suzi have to stick together!) Do you by any chance have an accession number for the V&A shirt -- or a reference for the Overview-Of-Embroidery book? I'd like to see that! Thanks, Susan ----- Susan Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Tennessee Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
