Tuesday 5 March 2013

Sins of a Stitcher!


 I only went for the Talks- Honest!


These were cut 1/2 metre lengths from
The Dyeworks
based in Gloucestershire
www.dyeworks.co.uk/contact.html



Polly Lyster trawls France and Turkey for linen fragments to dye


She makes recipes based on natural indigo
and then dip-dyes
up to ten times
to make these beautiful tints


Also found a clutch of linen spools!




My excuse was that I needed something for the journey home




Ohhh! and Meg Andrews had a fascinating darning sampler
from North Holland, stitched by Geertuid A. Kruyt.
The stitch patterns were very similar to twill weaving patterns
and looked like fantastic reference for field patterns!

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