Blackwork Embroidery: Royal School of Needlework Essential Stitch Guide Silk Ribbon Embroidery Kits

Blackwork Embroidery: Royal School of Needlework Essential Stitch Guide Silk Ribbon Embroidery KitsThis series of Essential Stitch Guides has been produced in close collaboration with the RSN with the aim of providing a set of definitive works on traditional embroidery techniques. All of the authors were chosen by the RSN and all are graduate apprentices of the Royal School. In this guide to blackwork, Graduate Apprentice and tutor, Becky Hogg, shows how to develop many different patterns from the basic blackwork stitches, using detailed

and an intricate stumpwork casket with a mirror in the lid and a hidden drawer

The straight blades are particularly good for cutting gold threads as the blades slip in between coils of wire easily and cleanly

Knots & Decorations

This design fits a 6 inch hoop and is suitable for beginners or anyone revisiting silk shading

gold smooth passing thread

100% linen with 56 threads per inch in warp and weft

The Tree of Life is a very important part of Jacobean design

explains how to transfer designs to fabric and demonstrates the long stitch and short stitch

lace thread

stranded cotton embroidery thread

Couched gold

as well as framing up