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Le terme "Crewel" vient de la déformation du terme anglo-saxon "cleow" qui désignait les pelotes de laine. La laine est un des premiers matériaux à avoir été utilisé pour la broderie et ce, dans des pays très divers, de l'Egypte à la Mongolie. La Tapisserie...

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I promised to show you this, my crewel embroidery piece 'Tree of Life' started and completed in the mid 1970's. I recall it took me perhaps a couple of years, picking it up now and then between family and work commitments when we lived in Massachusetts. I bought it as a kit - complete with the skeins of wools in beautiful colors, printed Belgian linen, and stitch instructions - offered by one of the most admired American stitchery women ever, the late Elsa Williams. After a lengthy search I've managed to find this article on her which I found so interesting. Some of her kits, now classified as 'vintage', are still available online. I didn't have my crewel piece framed until later when we moved here to North Carolina in 1977, choosing framing and hanging on the wall over a pillow or chair seat cover thinking it would last longer with less wear and tear. I'm amazed that the colors have not faded at all, however admit I've never displayed it on a wall with bright light or direct sun. Jacobean embroidery refers to styles that flourished in the reign of King James I of England in the first quarter of the 17th century. This is one of many depictions in the pattern of the Jacobean motif named 'Tree of Life.' It was popular for curtains and bed hangings - remember those? They draped four poster beds to keep out the winter drafts in those cold British castles and country mansions. Ms. Williams' designs for this motif were unsurpassed. The term Jacobean is used today to describe this design for furnishing and is characterized by fanciful plant and animal shapes, stylized forests, and exotic plants arising from a landscape or terra firma, worked in a variety of stitches with two-ply wool yarn on linen. A chart of crewel embroidery stitches and techniques via the Internet. I doubt I will ever do another intricate and somewhat complicated embroidery such as this, my eyesight is not what it used to be for close-up stitching. I do love it though, recall how I enjoyed creating it, and am proud that I did produce this special piece of handwork when I was in my thirties. I hope it will be considered an 'heirloom' of sorts, and will be kept and admired by a family member some day in the future.

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Animals seem to be a popular embroidery subject. They are everywhere online. I know that the Royal School of Needlework (RSN) teaches 'pet portraits' to their certificate and diploma (C&D) students, but it's not been available as a day class until recently. I had the good fortune to participate in the first offering of this online version of the class to non-C&D students. These are some of the bits and pieces that I had acquired by the end of the class: The class had a lot going for it even beyond the fact of it merely being available. It was six weeks long and held on Saturdays. Because the instructor, Jen Goodwin, was willing to teach at night in the UK I had a wonderfully civilised 10AM (California time) start time. The sessions were only three hours long which I found to be a good length for a Zoom class. (I tried a single six hour RSN class several months ago and it was tiring, not to mention the class started at 7AM for me which was just too early.) I did the entire class on a phone, but a tablet or something larger would be nicer! The following is going to be fairly geeky. I'm writing this with the intent to share and also as notes for myself. We spent the first four weeks with lectures and sample stitching. Jen gave us guidance on good and bad source materials for our animals and she helped us select our photos. I chose a head shot of one of my cats: Meili at nine months old from last November. She's in pretty good focus and her eyes look really nice which was something that was important to me. Once our source photos had been selected we started working on developing a stitching outline or pattern. Jen gave us good directions on how to create the outline. We then used those patterns to do more prep work including a stitch direction diagram, a black and white shaded drawing, a colour pencil drawing and an order-of-work breakdown. These were all excellent exercises intended to help us to really get to know our photo and how it would eventually be embroidered. I haven't had time to finish all of the prep work, but will before I start working on the final piece. We started the process of choosing appropriate ground fabrics and thread colours. I find choosing thread colours to be very challenging, so this was probably the part that interested me the most. We used colour photos of our animal subjects and held threads up to the photos to see what matched. Or, we used the actual animals themselves sometimes: The next steps were to stitch several samples of different types of fur one might encounter when stitching an animal. The class was geared towards helping us learn how to stitch any animal through the various exercises. Employing a subset of the threads that we intended to use on our portraits, we stitched the samples on muslin/calico. We weren't necessarily stitching samples of our animals, we just used colours that we had already selected for future use. The exercises were fun and very informative. (There were only six required samples. I added more boxes to play with later.) The most interesting thing about stitching the fur is that, unlike traditional shaded work where you come up in an already stitched area, you go down into an already stitched area. You want to see the end of the fur. That was kind of weird to get used to, but well worth it! I had a bit of a conundrum over which ground fabric to use on my project. I narrowed it down to two natural-coloured Italian Graziano linens. They are sold in the States as 'manuscript vellum' (left) and 'sandcastle' (right). (Cutting out Mei Mei's head from the cluttered background of the original photo made things much easier!) I ended up choosing manuscript vellum because I like the contrast better. At this point we could transfer our patterns to the ground fabric and start stitching, but I decided I would work on practice pieces first. We started with the eyes on our actual animals and, in my case, the neck which would be the first area I would start stitching on besides the eyes. I had a lot of trepidation over stitching the eyes. Our penultimate class was wholly dedicated to the eyes. By the way, after the first class, I didn't do any stitching during classes, I just observed and took notes. That worked better for me as I could completely focus on what was being taught. We could send Jen photos during the week of our progress if we wanted to. Back to the eyes....they were difficult, but not as hard as I thought they would be. I followed Jen's excellent instruction and ended up with these: They need a little more tweaking, but they're not bad for a first try. I put several copies of the eyes on one of my practice pieces (via ink jet). I want to try some other colour combinations as well. That's about where we ended the class. I think there will be many challenges ahead, but we were given excellent instruction. I feel I have a solid grounding in how to proceed, but I'm still going to have fun figuring out the colours. However, this is good for me to do and I'm glad I took the class so that it forced me to try something I knew would be difficult. The class had a nice amount of rigour, but we also laughed a lot! I highly recommend it if you are interested in learning to embroider animals. References Royal School of Needlework The class proved very popular and they plan on offering it again. As of this writing there is a class in the Fall. Some of the students in the class are sharing their work on Instagram. You can follow via #rsnspringpetportrait2021 Jen Goodwin Embroidery

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