Date: January 17, 1999
I was reading through my Just CrossStitch Christmas Ornament issue today and found this entry. You might want to follow up here.......
Linda Driskell of "Needlecrafts Unlimited Co." is known for her drawn thread work. In the mid 1980s she began designing and writing a series known as "Heirlomm Drawn Thread Samplers." This was to be a master collection of the drawn-thread patterns and stitches used in the old pieces of drawnthread work.
She has taught at "Christmas in Williamsburg" seminars sponsored by Just CrossStitch magazine.
Needlecrafts Unlimited website:
There you can see images of many examples of her drawn thread work.
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Martha Beth Lewis has a free chart on her site called "Easy Whitework Bookmark" that has some pulled thread work.
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Other sources of basic drawn thread work can be found in some of the needlework reference books including :
Running Press Book Publishers
125 South 22nd St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103-4399
Has a section on "Openwork on Linen" with some drawn thread techniques
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Counted-Thread Embroidery
by Helen Fairfield
Copyright 1987 by Helen Nixon Fairfield
St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 0-312-00965-8
Out of print according to Amazon.com |
LC Number 87-42636
143 pages; 7.25" x 9.75"
Has a chapter on drawn thread work
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The New Dictionary of Counted-Thread Embroidery Stitches
by Rhoda Ochser Goldberg
Three Rivers Press
Copyright 1998
Softcover (6-1/2" x 11"); 144 pages; color and black-and-white photos
Reprint edition: July 1998; 192 pages; ISBN: 0517886634
ISBN: 0-517-88663-4
Price: approx. $15.00 (US) |
Has a section on pulled thread techniques
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The Proper Stitch
by Darlene O'Steen
ISBN: 0932437036
Symbol of Excellence Publishers, Inc.
405 Riverhills Business Park
Birmingham, AL 35242
1-800-768-5878. They take MasterCard & Visa. |
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Treasury of NeedleCrafts
by Better Homes and Gardens
Hardcover, 480 pages
Copyright: 1982
ISBN: 069600755X
Out of print according to Amazon.com |
Has one pattern with some drawn thread work
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From: Brenda McCaw
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999
You can go here:
http://www.needlearts.com/web_of_threads/index.html
and find lessons on all kinds of needlework. Lessons 7 to 18 are for a pulled thread sampler. You need to get a password to enter the site but it is free. If you have any trouble let me know and I can look up the last password I had.
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From: Heather Clifton
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999
Linda Barry does some great pulled thread stuff as well. I've just finished her Elizabethan Treasures.
