White on white embroidery

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The white work embroidery is self-explanatory. The name alone hints at what this stitching is all about. It is the fine delicate embroidery done on white cloth with white thread, as seen on table l…

In my last post I told you about my visit to the Mountmellick Embroidery Museum in Ireland and I purchased a small embroidery kit at the museum to try stitching. The kit included the satin jean fabric, needle, thread, pattern with stitch suggestions and stitch instructions - along with some history about Mountmellick embroidery. Tracing the pattern. I used a washable blue pencil to roughly trace the pattern onto the fabric. Stitching! The satin jean fabric is thicker than what I am used to…

After stitching all the lines on my current embroidery project, the next step was to add some seed stitching. I figured filling in certain areas in seed stitch would accomplish two things: it would add some texture and it would make the prominent parts of the design stand out. And so, I proceeded to stitch ...

M, 1848c, British; Cambric, embroidered. Fragment

Whitework embroidery is a broad category that includes any white embroidery worked on white fabric, but commonly associate the term with specific stitches.

Cheating at hand embroidery - how to give the impression of hand embroidery, without really hand embroidering, and yet still call it hand embroidery. In a sense, this is what the once-popular "coronation cord" does. There are certain types of stitchery that could be considered, in a way, "cheate