[Artemisia] FW: Need to find

[L.J. Richards]

Cecilia,

Wasn't aware that punch embroidery was done on ada cloth - linen, canvas, 
etc., knew about.  Also styrofoam and cardboard are bad stuff!  When any of 
you go to this much work, please use acid-free foamcore for backing - it's 
not that expensive.  You can cut it with an exacto knife (when the foam 
starts to curl, need new blade).  Most university book/art stores have it 
and local art suppliers often have it.  The universities are cheaper than 
the art suppliers usually.  A/F foamcore is a pale cream color (usually) and 
the non a/f is white.  Never use the 'sticky' board either!  Conservators 
(and dry cleaners) haven't found a way as far as I know to safely get rid of 
the glue that adhers to the ada cloth, linen, canvas - whatever - and 
eventually eats it up.

I think there are punchwork pieces from the 1700s (and possibly 1600s) - 
don't remember at the moment.  Know it was popular in the 1800s on.

Mom gets a needlework magazine called Herrscjmers, www.Herrschners.com, 
1-800-441-0838.  The other might be Clotilde's (or they might know where to 
go).

Good luck!
Bronwen of Irenwold

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cheryl Robertson" <bcecilia at robertson.myrf.net>
To: "Aries" <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 7:47 PM
Subject: [Artemisia] FW: Need to find


> Good evening everyone,
>
> I hope I can get some help with this.  I was seeing one of my elderly
> clients today and I noticed on her wall  what I thought at first,  were
> paintings (paint-by-number type).  On closer examination I discovered they 
> were done with yarn.
>
> Being the good little researcher I am, I immediately launched into a linty
> of questions for this dear lady.  She couldn¹t give me the name and the 
> only clue I had was the category someone used to put it into a local fair, 
> punch yarn.
>
> Arriving home I made a bee-line for the computer and soon discovered that 
> this art form is called Punch Embroidery.  There is the Russian form and 
> also a Japanese form.  I haven¹t delved into it further to get a history 
> but suspect it may not, in its current form, be period but I¹m hopeful.
>
> But now to the problem.  This lovely lady does not have any further
> projects, patterns etc.  In my search I found many patterns and kits but
> most expensive.  My other problem is that when I was looking at her 
> finished product it was a canvas which was backed by Styrofoam and 
> cardboard.  She insisted that is the way the kit arrived to her.  All the 
> searching I did showed me otherwise.  Like other forms of embroidery, it¹s 
> done on linen or ada cloth stretched in a frame or hoop and upon finishing 
> then backed.
>
> Is there anyone out there that can help me clear up my confusion on this
> subject.  Do kits exist the way she showed me?  If so, where might I 
> locate them so that I can purchase a few for her to have?  If these things 
> aren¹t packaged with all that, any other ideas.
>
> Thanks for all your help.  If I can locate some she will be ecstatic to 
> have them to do again.
>
> YIS,
>
> Mst. Cecilia di Firenze