[Artemisia] Embordery Question

[S CLEMENGER]

Hi, Annabella.  Depends strongly on the kind of embroidery, and the scale of 
the design.  I saw a pretty wide variety at the V&A.  What kind of 
embroidery where you thinking of?
As a "fer instance," I'm currently working on a late-16th century Venetian 
camicia, doing long vertical stripes of fairly complicated blackwork.  The 
stitch count is about 20/inch, and I'm using a single strand of Soie Crystal 
needlepoint silk (think sewing thread).  I really like this silk floss, so 
for my next project, which will be more blackwork (quelle surprise!), I'm 
planning on one strand for the filling patterns, and probably 2 strands for 
the outlines (gonna re-create the sleeves from the Pelican Portrait).  A 
third project, a little later down the line, is going to be more in the 
realm of surface embroidery (from the portrait of Helen Snackenburg, and I'm 
sure I just utterly butchered her name, but she's got a partlet and sleeves 
embroidered with fairly realistic roses, and I'm going to do the same thing, 
but use columbines, as a columbine slipped and leaved is the main charge of 
my badge).  I imagine I'll be using 3 or more strands for that, unless I 
luck into some japanese silk, which isn't stranded/spun at all.
--Maire


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Suzanne Semich" <magpie at wyoming.com>
To: "Artemisia Aerie" <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 1:39 PM
Subject: [Artemisia] Embordery Question


> Can anyone out there tell me what size of Floss was most commonly used for 
> embordery on smocks and such in the 1500s to about 1560ish.
> Thank you
> L.  Annabella
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