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    Drawn Thread Embroidery
    Drawn Thread Embroidery
    Drawn Thread Embroidery
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    Drawn Thread Embroidery

    By Moyra McNeill

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    Drawn thread embroidery has been practiced and esteemed for centuries, producing the kind of elaborate linen tablecloths, veils, and shawls passed down through generations. You might think it's too complicated, expensive, and time-consuming to do today. But, in fact, it can be done by anyone who is simply handy with a needle; instead of linen you can use many inexpensive modern fabrics; and while there are many meticulous, intricate designs and patterns, this unique book has lots of ideas for quick and easy projects that will lend beauty and drama to your home and wardrobe.

    There are separate chapters on all of the well-known drawn thread varieties--needleweaving, reticella, Russian drawn ground, Hedebo, and Hardanger--and even an explanation of how drawn thread techniques can be adapted to the sewing machine.

    With over 140 photographs and 97 line drawings, this comprehensive book brings a timeless art into the '90s with as much style as precision.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateSep 16, 2014
    ISBN9781466881440
    Drawn Thread Embroidery
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    Moyra McNeill

    Moyra McNeill trained as an embroiderer. Her work is exhibited regularly and she also creates embroidery on commission. Drawn Thread Embroidery is her sixth book.

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    • 5/5
      Not a pattern book, but very good instructions for a wide variety of styles of Drawn thread work. The chapter on experimental work is very good. I would have liked to see some of the pictures in colour. That lack is the strongest sign that this is a reprint, and not a new book.

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    Drawn Thread Embroidery - Moyra McNeill

    1 Fabrics and threads

    Embroidery aims to alter a fabric or enhance its surface in selected areas, in order to create design, pattern and texture. Drawn thread embroidery, where threads, warp, weft or both, are withdrawn from the fabric, has a long history. Traditionally, the remaining threads are twisted, tied, grouped or woven into other threads in order to make patterns of holes in the fabric.

    Drawn fabric looks fragile and lace-like, and so in the past it was thought that removing threads weakened the material, which seems logical. As, however, there are so many drawn thread articles extant from past centuries, it seems this is not the case. For example, many of us have in our care table linen which is now a hundred years or more old, yet has many threads withdrawn. While it would probably be unwise to wash this linen regularly in a washing machine, it has survived boiling, bleaching and the application of indifferent ironing implements, and so must be considerably sturdier than it looks. The material is invariably linen, sewn with linen or cotton threads, and says a lot for the longevity of these fibres. On the other hand, we do not know how many of today’s synthetics will react to ageing: it may be that some of them may also have inbuilt longevity. When our ancestors were embroidering it seems unlikely that they were aiming to create for posterity; they simply made what was fashionable at the time, using those materials which were available. Today we sometimes seem obsessed with how long our work will last. Rather, why not do as past ages did – that is, work embroidery that is of today, using those fabrics and threads that are available, to express our own creativity and to make articles we want to

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