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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
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