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

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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 :D

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 :D …get the sparking wine! let’s throw a party! ;)

new museum pics – visiting the “Schatzkammer”/Treasury with Aryanhwy :)

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DSC02265…and I did it again – Aryanhwy and I visited the Schatzkammer/treasury here in Vienna and we took many many manyyyyyyyy photos – especially concerning heraldry (for Aryanhwy) and embroidery (for me) – btw. you can see a very excited Aryanhwy on the pic at the right :)

…you may ask why I nearly always visit the Schatzkammer – the answer is quite easy – the collection on display is awesome!!! …and it’s my favourite museum!! :)

I love the Schatzkammer and it is really a treasury with many beautiful things to discover…

…and here just a very small selection of my photos:

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…do you see the beautiful face at the next pic? …that’s really awesome embroidery!!

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…you can find all my “Schatzkammer” photos – more than 1500 !!! -  which I took at the treasury over the last years here: Austria, Vienna – Treasury / Schatzkammer

Margarets commission finished – last embroidery added & prepared for shipping :)

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Progress-commission_40I already posted about the single steps of this commission:
1.) mounting my embroidery (rolling) frame
2.) my very first try of a padding for embroidery
3.) my very first try of embroidery on top of a padding
4.) more embroidery on top of a padding – “R” progress
5.) more embroidery on top of a padding – “J & R” finished
6.) felt padding for a “medieval jewish wedding ring” metal thread embroidery
7.) “medieval jewish wedding ring” metal thread embroidery progress .1
8.) “medieval jewish wedding ring” metal thread embroidery progress .2
9.) “medieval jewish wedding ring” metal thread embroidery progress .3
10.) “medieval jewish wedding ring” metal thread embroidery finished
11.) Margarets commission – cut-out of the metal thread embroidery
12.) sewing the metal thread embroidery to the new fabric
13.) adding the blue outlines for the applied metal thread embroidery
14.) more embroidery underneath the metal thread embroidery

And now the last photos of the commission – the embroidery/commission is finished! wooohooo!!! :)

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time needed for the embroidery: 76 hours

I used following materials:

  • DMC Metallic thread Art. 280 Or/Gold mi-fin 28%cotton/ 71%copper/ 1% silver&gold – bought in Helsinki (Finland) some years ago
  • thin blue and yellow silk from the handweaver studio in London (England)
  • high quality cotton fabric for the metal thread embroidery
  • yellow felt for the padding for the metal thread embroidery
  • some of my small pearls
  • some bigger pearls provided by Margaret
  • blue (thick) silk thread provided by Margaret
  • a patch provided by Margaret

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…and I think something as beautiful as this embroidery – indeed I think this is the best embroidery I ever made – also needs a good cover for the shipping and this is how I packed the embroidery:

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…and to get sure that it arrives without any harm, I also wrapped it into a plastic bag (to prevent water damage *knock on wood*) and I also wrapped it into an additional thick soft plastic layer and a last layer of packing paper… :)
Today I got the message that the embroidery arrived – Margaret likes it very much and now it will travel to the US – a patch for a jewish wedding baldachin :)

Margarets commission – more embroidery underneath the metal thread embroidery :)

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Progress-commission_34I already posted about the previous steps:
1.) mounting my embroidery (rolling) frame
2.) my very first try of a padding for embroidery
3.) my very first try of embroidery on top of a padding
4.) more embroidery on top of a padding – “R” progress
5.) more embroidery on top of a padding – “J & R” finished
6.) felt padding for a “medieval jewish wedding ring” metal thread embroidery
7.) “medieval jewish wedding ring” metal thread embroidery progress .1
8.) “medieval jewish wedding ring” metal thread embroidery progress .2
9.) “medieval jewish wedding ring” metal thread embroidery progress .3
10.) “medieval jewish wedding ring” metal thread embroidery finished
11.) Margarets commission – cut-out of the metal thread embroidery
12.) sewing the metal thread embroidery to the new fabric
13.) adding the blue outlines for the applied metal thread embroidery

In the last posting I showed you how I attached the new blue “outlines” round the borders of the metal thread embroidery and this time I provide photos of the embroidery which I added underneath the metal thread embroidery. I used nearly the same technique which I used for the outlines for applying the blue thread in the shape you can see at the photos – I just made smaller “sewing” stitches than I used for fixing the outline thread… – and I used the same threads which I used for the outlines.
I again tried to take photos of the embroidery in the sunlight from different angles to give you an idea of how the light reacts with the metal thread and also with the added pearls.

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…btw. next time I will post some photos of the complete embroidery because I also added some decoration above the metal thread embroidery.

Margarets commission – adding the blue outlines for the applied metal thread embroidery :)

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Progress-commission_25I already posted about the previous steps:
1.) mounting my embroidery (rolling) frame
2.) my very first try of a padding for embroidery
3.) my very first try of embroidery on top of a padding
4.) more embroidery on top of a padding – “R” progress
5.) more embroidery on top of a padding – “J & R” finished
6.) felt padding for a “medieval jewish wedding ring” metal thread embroidery
7.) “medieval jewish wedding ring” metal thread embroidery progress .1
8.) “medieval jewish wedding ring” metal thread embroidery progress .2
9.) “medieval jewish wedding ring” metal thread embroidery progress .3
10.) “medieval jewish wedding ring” metal thread embroidery finished
11.) Margarets commission – cut-out of the metal thread embroidery
12.) sewing the metal thread embroidery to the new fabric

In the last posting I showed you how I applied the cut-out metal thread embroidery to the fabric which I got from Margaret – in this posting I have some photos for you concerning how I attached the new blue “outlines” round the borders of the metal thread embroidery :)

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The most difficult part was the work at the outlines of the ring – especially the part which lays on top of the embroidery – you can see this part very good at the following photo – for applying the outline thread on top of the embroidery I had to stitch through the metal thread embroidery which is very tight. Furthermore ‘just’ stitching through the embroidery would have – in the worst case – damaged the embroidery. To punch the metal thread is not really a good idea because it breaks the metal layer of the metal thread – if you want to try some split stitch, metal thread isn’t the best choice ;)
I tried my best not to punch the metal thread and to navigate the needle through the very small openings between the metal threads.

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…and here an example of how I applied the outline thread – as you can see here, I placed the needle with the very thin silk thread (the one which I already used for the surface couching of the metal thread) right underneath the outer ‘border’ of the thread for the outlines…

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…and I punctured the outline thread ca. in its middle – I tried always to puncture the outline thread in its “twist line” (I don’t know how it is called in English) – inbetween the twisted single parts of the thread…

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…and here the applied metal thread embroidery with its new outlines :)

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Next time I will provide more photos about the additional decoration I added (which also includes some pearls :) )

Ask Racaire – more info about “the lady with the pelican hood” / 16th century :)

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Today I was asked for more information about this painting and here we are:

Hans Maler
von 1500 – 1520 in Ulm nachweisbar (verifiable in Ulm/Germany)

Bildnis der Maria Welzer (portrait of …)
1524 datiert (dated)
Tempera auf Holz (tempera on wood)

…and here a detail photo of the lovely pearl embroidery of her hat – such a beautiful pelican:

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…btw. this embroidery reminds me on another pearl embroider which I found on display at the KHM collection Neue Burg – “Hofjagd- u. Rüstkammer” – I think this gives a very good example how this embroidery could have looked like in real:

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Geweihter Hut (holy? hood of)
Erzherzog Ferdinand II (archduke…)
(1529-1595)
Italienisch, 1567 (italian)

…and the best of all – according to the information given by the museum – this hood was made “just” about 43 years after the portrait! :)

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