12th century dress project – red silk dress with maunches and surface couching embroidery finally finished! :D

Veröffentlicht am 24. April 2013 von racaire

Wooohoooo! I finally attached the embroidered bands to the upper arm part of my sleeves - yeahhhhh! the last stitches for this project are done now – I am sooooo excited

I just had to sacrifice 4 eyelets per embroidered band – yay, the lacing goes that far… *lol* too bad that I didn’t know this when I made them – 8 eyelets which weren’t really necessary… *lol*

btw. I finally decided to also put some extra support on the bottom part of the neckline at the back because it looks like it is working quite fine for the front – sorry, I forgot to take a pic of it but it looks similar like shown in this posting about the support for the front: “12th century dress project – …extra support of the neckline .2 & embroidered bands for the upper arm .3 “

Yay, the red silk dress is finished by now and I really like it …get the sparking wine! let’s throw a party!

12th century dress project – …extra support of the neckline .2 & embroidered bands for the upper arm .3 :)

Veröffentlicht am 15. April 2013 von racaire

…and here finally a picture of the extra support for the bottom part of my neckline – I think I might do the same to the bottom part of the neckline at the back…

A sneak view of the dress with the alteration – well, it looks more stiff then before and I am rather pleased but I haven’t laced the dress really tight yet because I only wanted to see at which height I want to place my embroidered bands at my upper arms (and lacing and un-lacing always takes so much time and effort *lol*)… Yeah, that’s what this embroidered bands are for at which I was working the last days and weeks and I like it

…next step: I will prepare the bands so far that I can attach them to the sleeves – that means that I will insert the same band which I used to reinforce my neckline at the bottom and top of the bands to give them a little bit more support and “body”… and I will surely need “more body” at the top because the bands are so high that they will cover up some of the lacing part which goes rather deep until the point where the maunches are set in… but I already have a solution for this on my mind…

…more embroidery for my 12th century silk dress… embroidered bands for the upper arm .2 :)

Veröffentlicht am 15. April 2013 von racaire

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…and, after such a long time, finally more embroidery progress for my 12th century silk dress.

I finished the embroidery of the basic pattern and just finished filling in the roundels for the embroidered bands which I will attach at the sleeves – at the upper arm (above the elbow) – of my silk 12th century silk dress.

Yes, again surface couching, the technique I already used for the embroidery for the slit neck of my 12th century silk dress – with a very thin silk (from the handweaver studio in London) I couched the thread “Ophir” from the company Coats to the red silk fabric and I am very pleased with how it looks like.

My inspiration for the “filling” of the roundels were again the lovely “animals”, or lets call them “beasts” , from the Bayeux tapestry – which I already used for my “Bayeux dress project” some years ago – one of my favourite fun projects.

…and I know, some of you always like to see the backside of my embroidery and here it is…
I always try to keep my backside as nice as possible because I think that it makes working at the front much easier.

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…more embroidery for my 12th century silk dress… embroidered bands for the upper arm .1 :)

Veröffentlicht am 25. März 2013 von racaire

…some of you will remember my recent 12th century silk dress… and well, it’s still not finished, yay, more embroidery, what else?

During the last months I was – from time to time – working a little bit on the embroidered bands for this dress and finally there is enough progress to share it with you.

First I thought about doing a slightly different pattern for the bands but then I decided to stick with the same basic design which I did for the slit neckline

…and finally – here are the progress pictures of my embroidered bands – the basic design for one band is already finished – now to what I hate most – I have to copy the design for the other band and do it a second time

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…a picture of my new red 12th century silk dress

Veröffentlicht am 9. Dezember 2012 von racaire

…because I know that there are still many people without a facebook account, I thought it might be nice to add a picture of my finished 12th century dress here too – I really like the final result …and many thanks to my friend Gloria who took this picture of my lord and me.

Btw. you can find many progress pics of this dress and the embroidery at my facebook page - “12th century silk dress project ” -

another small needle-book with “Klosterstich” embroidery – “Rose 3”

Veröffentlicht am 25. Dezember 2011 von racaire

…and another completely handmade and hand-embroidered small needlebook with a small Klosterstich embroidery inspired by the medieval “Propheten Teppich” – yes, again a medieval rose

Here a direct link to my Artfire Studio:

Hand-Embroidered Needlebook with Klosterstich embroidery – Rose 3

…again a needle book which is big enough for (my) veil/wimple pins

Wool: http://www.renaissancedyeing.com
Size (unfolded): ca. 15 cm x 7,5 cm

…and another pearl and needle-made lace loop on the other side added for closing

another small needle-book with “Klosterstich” embroidery – “Rose 2”

Veröffentlicht am 11. Dezember 2011 von racaire

…and another completely handmade and hand-embroidered small needlebook with a small Klosterstich embroidery – again a medieval rose

Here a direct link to my Artfire Studio:

Hand-Embroidered Needlebook with Klosterstich embroidery – Rose 2

btw. this needle book is big enough for (my) veil/wimple pins

Wool: http://www.renaissancedyeing.com
Size (unfolded): ca. 16,3 cm x 7,8 cm