How about clamping it to a large, sturdy picture frame with the back and
glass taken out? Or maybe clamping it to a yard stick? I was thinking that
would be similar to pinning to a pillow, but without the risk of
embroidering onto the pillow.
Natalie
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From: "E House" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 5:48 PM
Subject: [h-cost] ribbon embroidery frame, & water-dissolving interfacing?
I need some bright ideas. I'm planning to make my own goldwork embroidery
trim, by embroidering some heavy silk satin ribbon; I'll be doing it both on
some 5/8" wide and some 1" wide ribbon. The embroidery is going to be a
continuous design, and longer than any frames I've seen, so I won't be able
to fit it into a normal embroidery frame without wrecking it. I thought of
pinning it to a pillow, but I can't figure out any practical way to do that
without accidentally embroidering into the pillow itself. Ideas?
Also, long ago I did graphic design for an embroidery company. To back the
embroidery, one of the things they used was a type of interfacing that
dissolved when sprayed with water. Does anyone know the name of this stuff,
or brand names of something similar but perhaps a bit more substantial? The
ribbon is black, and all the traditional methods I've experimented with to
mark the design just did not work well; there's too much fiddly detail in
the design for anything that actually shows up. I'm hoping to mark the
design on an easily removeable interfacing instead. (My last ditch idea is
to paint the design on, but that seems like it will take forever and make it
really hard to accurately render the design.)
-E House
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