What is this embroidery called?

We travelled to my Dad's house this spring break for a long-overdue vist.
Everything went pretty well, and my irascible Dad was only ornery with my
husband and son, not me...that being rather remarkable. His wife's
daughter-in-law does cross stitch and they had several of her pieces framed, so
the discussion turned to that subject, and my Dad mentioned that when he was a
kid and in the hospital for a bone infection (he stepped on a rusty nail) he
kept busy making pillow tops. I remember them from when I was a kid -- they
were done on black velvet (or something like velvet) with looped yarn. Dad
said he used some kind of punch needle, and that after he'd filled in the
spaces some of the yarn was trimmed to make a fuzzy texture. One of the pillows
said "Mother" and looked Victorian -- the others were a dog and a kitten,
1930's cutesy. I had never thought of Dad having needleworking genes (but of
course he did, because his mother was a quilter). I'm wondering -- what was
(is) this called? Do people still do it? Can you get the materials for it?

Katrina L.

It's still done.

It's still often called Punch Needle Embroidery.

It also has other names in other languages.

You can still get the tools for it. You can use either regular
embroidery supplies or fuxxy nylon, depending on what you're trying to
do. Victorians didn't have fuzzy nylon, of course.

http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/punchneedle/

Try a websearch for "Punch Needle Embroidery", see also Bunka, and
there's a Russian name that begins with "Ig-"

Diane Hare

KDLark wrote:
We travelled to my Dad's house this spring break for a long-overdue vist.
Everything went pretty well, and my irascible Dad was only ornery with my
husband and son, not me...that being rather remarkable. His wife's
daughter-in-law does cross stitch and they had several of her pieces framed, so
the discussion turned to that subject, and my Dad mentioned that when he was a
kid and in the hospital for a bone infection (he stepped on a rusty nail) he
kept busy making pillow tops. I remember them from when I was a kid -- they
were done on black velvet (or something like velvet) with looped yarn. Dad
said he used some kind of punch needle, and that after he'd filled in the
spaces some of the yarn was trimmed to make a fuzzy texture. One of the pillows
said "Mother" and looked Victorian -- the others were a dog and a kitten,
1930's cutesy. I had never thought of Dad having needleworking genes (but of
course he did, because his mother was a quilter). I'm wondering -- what was
(is) this called? Do people still do it? Can you get the materials for it?

Katrina L.

On 2004-05-14 17:15:55 -0500, Diane Hare said:

It's still done.

It's still often called Punch Needle Embroidery.

It also has other names in other languages.

You can still get the tools for it. You can use either regular
embroidery supplies or fuxxy nylon, depending on what you're trying to
do. Victorians didn't have fuzzy nylon, of course.

http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/punchneedle/


This page is a good example of why I hate Anglefire pages. I don't
find anything wrong with the people who use them, but I can't stand the
way Anglefire does their pages. Although I know pop-ups are everywhere
on the web, Anglefire believes in overkill. While most places usually
pop up two or three at the most, AF does 3-6 and with every **** page
you look at. I find that so aggravating that I usually avoid their
pages.

ok, gripe off :-)

--
Suze

Cat hair? That's just an embellishment.

During the 1970's (or so), there was a small fad for this and the
threads were rayon. I remember seeing Panda's and very Asian-looking
flower patterns at that time.

I finally got some supplies to just have a go at it back in the early
1990's. Just to say I'd done it. Alas, I didn't like the more modern
threads after having seen the lovely ones years before. Of course, what
they are using now may be entirely different.

Dianne

Diane Hare wrote:

It's still done.

It's still often called Punch Needle Embroidery.

It also has other names in other languages.

You can still get the tools for it. You can use either regular
embroidery supplies or fuxxy nylon, depending on what you're trying to
do. Victorians didn't have fuzzy nylon, of course.

http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/punchneedle/

Try a websearch for "Punch Needle Embroidery", see also Bunka, and
there's a Russian name that begins with "Ig-"

Diane Hare

KDLark wrote:

We travelled to my Dad's house this spring break for a long-overdue
vist. Everything went pretty well, and my irascible Dad was only
ornery with my
husband and son, not me...that being rather remarkable. His wife's
daughter-in-law does cross stitch and they had several of her pieces
framed, so
the discussion turned to that subject, and my Dad mentioned that when
he was a
kid and in the hospital for a bone infection (he stepped on a rusty
nail) he
kept busy making pillow tops. I remember them from when I was a kid
-- they
were done on black velvet (or something like velvet) with looped
yarn. Dad
said he used some kind of punch needle, and that after he'd filled in the
spaces some of the yarn was trimmed to make a fuzzy texture. One of
the pillows
said "Mother" and looked Victorian -- the others were a dog and a kitten,
1930's cutesy. I had never thought of Dad having needleworking genes
(but of
course he did, because his mother was a quilter). I'm wondering --
what was
(is) this called? Do people still do it? Can you get the materials
for it?

Katrina L.