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22
Mai
2010
4th item for my artfire shop… 13th century German Brick Stitch pouch :)
Finally I managed to take some nice photos of my 13th century German Brick Stitch pouch in day light (and some additional ones of my small pouch with 14th centruy German Brick Stitch) and therefore I also added my 13th century German Brick Stitch pouch to my artfire.com studio – “Racaire’s embroidery & needlework“ 
…completely embroidered and sewn by hand…
…it took me about 250 hours to embroider and finish this pouch.
Details:
- For more information please follow this link: German Brick Stitch Pouch 2
- Height: ca. 27.5 cm / Width: ca. 22.0 cm
- Embroidery:
- German Brick Stitch (13th century pattern)
- border: ‘Finishing the seams of 14th/15th century pouches’ along the border of the embroidery - Working time: 250 hours
- Pattern inspiration: Tristans ‘German Brick Stitch’ pattern – “13th century brick stitch pattern, revised version”
- Used fabrics: linen and cotton/linen blend
- Embroidery & Cord thread: Lana Grossa – Basics, “Lauflänge ca. 115m, 100% Baumwolle gasiert, mercerisiert” (Cotton – can be washed in the washing machine: delicates / 30°C / no tumble-dryer, can be ironed)
- Cord technique: “1. A Broad Lace of 5 Loops” based on the instruction in the book: TAK V BOWES DEPARTED – A 15th Century Braiding Manual Examined
…and here are the new (daylight) photos of my 14th century pouch:
13
Mai
2010
second item for my artfire shop… a small pouch with 14th century German Brick Stitch pattern
This time I made a small pouch with German Brick Stitch embroidery for my artfire shop - my second item on sale at artfire.com – “Racaire’s embroidery & needlework“
The embroidery pattern is inspired by a pattern found at a hanging from the cloister Wienhausen (Germany), which was produced shortly after the middle of the 14th century – you can see a photo of the pattern on the left side. I found it in the book:
R. Kroos – Niedersächsische Bildstickereien des Mittelalters
ISBN 3871570109
picture Nr. 284 “hl. Martin den Mantel teilend”
more information on page 155 “121 Behang, kurz nach Mitte 14. Jh.”
…it took me about 64 hours to embroider and finish this pouch- “Racaire” logo on the inside
pattern inspiration:
- hanging from the cloister Wienhausen, produced shortly after the middle of the 14th century – picture “hl. Martin den Mantel teilend” – the saint Martin dividing his cloak, some of you would maybe find the story with the cloak quite interesting:
-> Wikipedia “Martin von Tours” (German)
-> Wikipedia “Martin of Tours” (English)
embroidery:
- German Brick Stitch (14th century pattern)
- border: ‘Finishing the seams of 14th/15th century pouches’ along the border of the embroidery
fabrics:
- linen and cotton/linen blend
embroidery thread:
- lovely thin wool thread from Renaissance Dyeing, 100% Lambswool, hand dyed – http://www.renaissancedyeing.com/
cord:
- wool: wool thread from Renaissance Dyeing
– technique: “1. A Broad Lace of 5 Loops” and “2. A Round Lace of 5 Loops” based on the instruction in the book: TAK V BOWES DEPARTED – A 15th Century Braiding Manual Examined
…worked in a non-smoking, cat-friendly environment
…and here a detail photo of the German Brick Stitch embroidery (front):
…and here also a picture of the back side of the embroidery:
27
Apr
2010
2nd item for my artfire shop…
My friend Tristan (“Taschen”) and Kathy (“Medieval Arts & Crafts”) inspired me to try to develope a Brick Stitch pattern based on a medieval design by myself and here’s the result – I will make a nice page with the detailed pattern chart and the source of my inspiration as soon as I finished this pouch
…btw. the colors are not based on the picture of the original pattern because the picture is just b/w – but the decision war rather easy – because I try to work up my ‘leftover’ wool from my Wallhanging project, I decided to use the range of colors of my Wallhanging project and this was the best looking color combination
13
Apr
2010
German Brick Stitch II – 13th century pattern – status: pouch finished / + 6hours :)
…embroidery status:
236 hours 18 minutes
+8 hours for sewing
+6 hours for cords/braiding & tassels
Tristans ‘German Brick Stitch’ pattern
“13th century brick stitch pattern, revised version”
At the picture above you can see my first try of a Turk’s Head Knot – many thanks to my friend Tristan and his great “Taschen” blog who pointed me to a posting about knots at the Medieval Silkwork blog: “Racaire, the tutorial I use is this, which I got from one of Machteld’s posts @ Medieval Silkwork.”
Tristan uses the Turk’s Head Knot as a decoration for the tassels for his beautiful pouches – this very special pouch inspired me to learn this technique. The thread that I used for this Turk’s Head Knot is not very decorative on its own therefore I added more thread and separated the different sections by some “gold thread” – to keep the threads together and to add some nice decoration I added three lines of chain stitch underneath the Turk’s Head Knot…
Yesterday I tried my first “A Broad Lace of 5 Loops” and today I used this technique again for the cords for this pouch
11
Apr
2010
German Brick Stitch II – 13th century pattern – status: sewing finished / + 8hours :)
…embroidery status:
236 hours 18 minutes
+8 hours for sewing
…maybe some of you will ask why it took me 8 hours to finish the ‘sewing’ – first I had to cut the pieces for the lining, than I had to pin them together and finally I could start sewing… and in the end I tried to hide and secure the threads as good as possible…
Tristans ‘German Brick Stitch’ pattern
“13th century brick stitch pattern, revised version”
15
Mrz
2010
German Brick Stitch II – 13th century pattern – status: embroidery finished / 236h 18min :)
…embroidery status:
236 hours 18 minutes
Tristans ‘German Brick Stitch’ pattern
“13th century brick stitch pattern, revised version”
22
Feb
2010
German Brick Stitch II – 13th century pattern – status: 200h 23min :)
…embroidery status:
200 hours 23 minutes
Tristans ‘German Brick Stitch’ pattern
“13th century brick stitch pattern, revised version”
4
Feb
2010
German Brick Stitch II – 13th century pattern – status: 153h 49min :)
…embroidery status:
153 hours 49 minutes
Tristans ‘German Brick Stitch’ pattern
“13th century brick stitch pattern, revised version”
28
Jan
2010
German Brick Stitch II – 13th century pattern – status: 123h 09min :)
…embroidery status:
123 hours 09 minutes
Tristans ‘German Brick Stitch’ pattern
“13th century brick stitch pattern, revised version”
21
Jan
2010
German Brick Stitch II – 13th century pattern – status: 99h 07min :)
…embroidery status:
99 hours 07 minutes
13
Jan
2010
German Brick Stitch II – 13th century pattern – progress III
…again new progress
Tristans ‘German Brick Stitch’ pattern
“13th century brick stitch pattern, revised version”
2
Jan
2010
German Brick Stitch II – 13th century pattern – progress II
…and again new progress concerning my second ‘German Brick Stitch’ try
Tristans ‘German Brick Stitch’ pattern
“13th century brick stitch pattern, revised version”
…und wieder ein neuer Fortschritt bei meinem zweiten ‘German Brick Stitch’ Versuch
24
Dez
2009
German Brick Stitch II – 13th century pattern – progress I
I managed to make some progress with my new embroidery project during the last days – I still don’t know what I will do with it when it is finished, but I don’t mind
I took a picture of the embroidery before I added the red color -> left pic – and with the red color -> middle pic – and at the right picture you can see the back side of my embroidery
Tristans ‘German Brick Stitch’ pattern
“13th century brick stitch pattern, revised version”
Ich habe es in den letzten Tagen geschafft, mit meiner Stickerei wieder etwas weiter zu kommen – ich weiß zwar immer noch nicht, was ich damit machen werde wenn die Stickerei fertig ist, aber das macht mir nicht viel aus
Ich machte ein Bild von der Stickerei bevor ich die rote Farbe hinzufügte -> linkes Bild – und eines mit der roten Farbe -> mittleres Bild – und auf dem rechten Bild can man die Rückseite der Stickerei sehen
20
Dez
2009
German Brick Stitch II – 13th century pattern :)
Have I mentioned yet, that I don’t like counting techniques? *lol*
Nevertheless, Tristans ‘German Brick Stitch’ pattern “13th century brick stitch pattern, revised version” is so lovely that I decided that my antipathy concerning counting techniques is not as strong as the wish to reproduce this pattern. This time I liked the colors very much and just changed the used color of two parts to another color of the color range of this pattern.
At the right side you can see a small rectangle – here I changed from a completely white filling around the blue pattern to a grey/white one – I think only white would be just to strong.
I wasn’t quite sure about the second change – you can see that I finished a great part of this part of the pattern before I started to work at the filling of this center part – the pattern suggests a blue filling for it but I decided to substitute it with white color – it’s just the reversion of the other big center part (white outside – blue inside). I really like how the white color shines in this blue and rather dark frame .
…and I also took a picture of the backside for you – I know, some of you love to take a look at the backside of my embroidery.
Habe ich schon erwähnt, das ich Sticktechniken nicht mag, bei denen man zählen muss? 
Wie auch immer, Tristan’s Muster “13th century brick stitch pattern, revised version” hat mich so begeistert, das ich beschlossen habe, das meine Abneigung gegen ‘Zählmuster’ nicht annähernd so stark ist, wie der Wunsch dieses Muster nachzuarbeiten. Dieses Mal haben mir die Farben schon von Anfang an gut gefallen und ich habe nur die Farben von zwei kleinen Bereichen geändert und bin dabei in der Farbpalette des Musters geblieben.
Auf der rechten Seite kann mein ein kleines Rechteck sehen, hier habe ich die weiße Füllung um das blaue Motiv auf grau/weiß geändert – ich bin der Ansicht, das eine rein weiße Fläche in diesem Bereich einen zu harten Eindruck erwecken würde.
Bezüglich der zweiten Änderung war ich mir anfangs nicht so sicher – wie du sehen kannst, habe ich einen großen Teil des Musters fertig gestellt bevor ich mit der Füllung des Mittelteils begonnen habe – Tristan’s Muster schlägt eine blaue Füllung für diesen Bereich vor, aber ich entschied mich die blaue Füllung mit einer weißen zu ersetzen – im Endeffekt ist es nur die Umkehrung des zweiten Mittelteils (weiß aussen – blau innen). Mir gefällt sehr gut wie die weißen Flächen in ihrer blauen und ziemlich dunken Umrandung srahlen.
…und wieder einmal habe ich auch ein Bild von der Rückseite für euch gemacht – ich weiß ja, manche von euch werfen auch gerne einen Blick auf die Rückseite meiner Stickereien
10
Okt
2009
German Brick Stitch – pouch finished :)
The pouch is finally finished!
I decided, while working at it, to send it as a gift to a very nice lady – but I won’t tell you more before she tells me that she got my present (and she don’t knows that she will get one – surprise, surprise – I love sending gifts ), just that I think that she really deserves this gift
…and once again the credit for the pattern:
Tristan and his blog “Taschen” (http://medievalpurses.blogspot.com) were I found this nice pattern (http://medievalpurses.blogspot.com/2008/06/pattern-redaction-part-1.html)
…and don’t forget – if you find a pattern you like, but you don’t like the colors or would like to use an other color combination – try the pattern with other colors.
The best thing that works for me is to take some colors I would like to use and put them at one place together and than I change/adjust the single colors until I think that it looks right and gives me a good feeling – some combination can look very cold, lifeless, boring, … and sometimes crazy combinations can look very nice and I had a very good feeling concerning this color combination – I hope more people will have the courage to use bright colors and I think that some of the medieval embroideries look best with bright and very differing color combination (-> Klosterstich, -> Refilsaum )
…and the credit for the seam finishing:
Medieval Silkwork blog and the posting “Finishing the seams of 14th/15th century pouches” (http://m-silkwork.blogspot.com/2007/04/finishing-seams-of-14th15th-century_29.html)
…maybe the beginning is a little bit tricky, when it is done the first time, but the effect is very nice
…and for the thread that will hold the pouch I tried to braid with 4 threads for the first time – I had to try the beginning two times, but than it worked quite well