Austrian cross stitch

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Quaker Snowflake - so fun to stitch If you want to stitch it yourself the free pattern is here: http://www.petitescroix.fr/grilles/etoile-monochrome/

If you're interested in historical German embroidery patterns (and others), check out the links below! Early Pattern Books for Lace and Embroidery, by Margaret Harrington Daniels... which has images from Arther Lotz's Modelbücher (1523) Christian Egenolff's Modelbuch (1527) Federic Vinciolo's Les Singvliers Et Novveaux Povrtraicts (1587) Johann Siebmacher's Schön Neues Modelbuch (1597) Jost Martin's Schön neues Modelbuch (1599) Johann Siebmacher's Modelbuch (1611) Richard Schorleyker's A…

Austrian designer Thérèse de Dillmont, who started designing for DMC in 1884, created hypnotic patterns in this cross stitch design. Dillmont is one of...

Austrian embroidery design

Hello all. I have been working a lot and have limited time, but i wanted to put a short post in. I talked in my first post about the three-part embroidery on the sleeves of traditional chemises from Podillia, Bukovyna, Moldova and Wallachia. I have here three examples. Often charted or painted examples do not bother to explain the arrangement on the sleeve of the three motifs. This first one is Ukrainian, from the Khmel'nytsky oblast [administrative region]. Which is part of Eastern…

Hello all, I ran across some charted embroidery designs from Vrlika in Croatia, and I decided to share them with you. These are from the Washington University digitized collection. There is some wonderful material put out on the internet by various Museums. These would have been used on the front and sleeves of the chemises of the area, as seen above. Some would have been used on linen kerchiefs as well. Enjoy Roman K email:rkozakand@aol.com Source material…