British Colonial in America

I need advise of needlework that can be produced that would fit into a room
that has a large 4 poster bed European with bed curtains and American coverlet,
gray green French toile curtains, tapestries on the wall (William morris,
european) . Barbie

BDS2pds wrote:

I need advise of needlework that can be produced that would fit into a room
that has a large 4 poster bed European with bed curtains and American coverlet,
gray green French toile curtains, tapestries on the wall (William morris,
european) . Barbie


Hi Barbie - you mentioned in another post that Hollis Minor's book is
too late in the time line. So I'm suprised that you mention William
Morris since he is late 1870-early 1900s - much after the time period
you are looking at. Plus his designs are more reflective of the
renaissance period. You might want to look at Betty Ring's two-volume
set "Girlhood Embroidery". Another good resource is "The Proper Stitch"
by Darlene O'Steen.

Also Kathy Dyer's website offers lots of good links for historical
needlework
http://users.rcn.com/kdyer.dnai/


And in fact there is a "History of Embroidery in America at
http://www.white-works.com/EmbroideryIndex.htm


HTHs

Marg

Thanks for the response. The colonial work is for one room. The European
William Morris is for another room. The Federal era is yet for another room.
They are separate needs! Thanks for the response. Help me if you can gals. I
am researching also in the meanwhile! Got to get this job done!

Hi Barbie - you mentioned in another post that Hollis Minor's book is
too late in the time line. So I'm suprised that you mention William
Morris since he is late 1870-early 1900s - much after the time period
you are looking at. Plus his designs are more reflective of the
renaissance period. You might want to look at Betty Ring's two-volume
set "Girlhood Embroidery". Another good resource is "The Proper Stitch"
by Darlene O'Steen.

Also Kathy Dyer's website offers lots of good links for historical
needlework
http://users.rcn.com/kdyer.dnai/


And in fact there is a "History of Embroidery in America at
http://www.white-works.com/EmbroideryIndex.htm


HTHs

Marg

BDS2pds wrote:

Thanks for the response. The colonial work is for one room. The European
William Morris is for another room. The Federal era is yet for another room.
They are separate needs! Thanks for the response. Help me if you can gals. I
am researching also in the meanwhile! Got to get this job done!



Hi Barbie - you mentioned in another post that Hollis Minor's book is
too late in the time line. So I'm suprised that you mention William
Morris since he is late 1870-early 1900s - much after the time period
you are looking at. Plus his designs are more reflective of the
renaissance period. You might want to look at Betty Ring's two-volume
set "Girlhood Embroidery". Another good resource is "The Proper Stitch"
by Darlene O'Steen.

Also Kathy Dyer's website offers lots of good links for historical
needlework
http://users.rcn.com/kdyer.dnai/


And in fact there is a "History of Embroidery in America at
http://www.white-works.com/EmbroideryIndex.htm


HTHs

Marg




Hi again Barbie:


I have a wonderful book on William Morris which might be of help,
although I'm not sure if you can get it. It's "The Earthy Paradise" It
was the book issued to co-incide with the exhibition of Morris and his
contemporaries at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1993. There is a
marvelous chapter on his textiles. Included are fabrics, tapesties, rugs
and embroideries and wallhangings. My favourite is one from which a
detail is also used on the cover. It is a 295 x 156 cm (hmm roughly 9
1/2 x 4 ft) wallhanging! It is a design called Partridge, Done on a
background of Oak patterned silk damask and stitched with silk thread.
There is one uncompleted section where you can see the design traced on
the fabric. The orginal fabric, with design and silks, was purchased by
a woman in Montreal. Considering the size of the work it is no wonder
she never quite finished it.

Marg

On 1/29/04 8:28 AM,"BDS2pds" posted:

Thanks for the response. The colonial work is for one room. The European
William Morris is for another room. The Federal era is yet for another room.
They are separate needs! Thanks for the response. Help me if you can gals. I
am researching also in the meanwhile! Got to get this job done!

You got some good link refernces. You may just have to look at samplers - as
much of the needlework done in that time was - Samplers. There are several
designers that do reproductions, some which also do Historic Style, though
not genuine reproductions. They're not all just alphabets - there are spot
samplers with motifs of the times, and even the traditional historic ones
frequently have motifs which are representative of the stitcher's life -
their house, pets, a big tree, etc.

Anyhow, I've given you some links to designers that do either reproductions,
or historic style designs. Some are a little whimsical - but at least IMHO,
all of them have really nice designs, and charts. The only one on the list
whose charts themselves I don't really like is Of Female Worth - but her
designs themselves are pretty meticulously researched (we do her sample
framing, and have or have had in the shop several of the original samplers
she's reproduced).

http://www.homespunsamplar.com/default.php
Carries a lot of historic style designers

http://www.shopworks.com/samplers/ -
this is The Goode Huswife - they have really nice period designs - for
the American colonial times. I saw something on their opening page that
looked really nice - a picture with big willow tree.

http://www.brightneedle.com/
http://www.carriagehousesamplings.com/
http://silverthimble.net/reproductions.htm
http://www.scarlet-letter.com/
http://www.flocktogether.com/ (Birds of a Feather)

http://prairieschooler.com/latest.htm
Have some good primitive style (early Americana) designs, not samplers

http://www.hillsidesamplings.com/
http://www.historicstitches.com/
http://www.homespunelegance.com/
http://www.needlescontent.com/

http://www.offemaleworth.com/main.html - her reproductions are very good,
charts a little tough - but she has a lot

http://www.nordencrafts.com/CHARTS/LDD/LDDMAIN.htm
they distribute La-D-Da designs, a newer designer, very nice primitive style
charts - they're nice - IMHO

http://www.nordencrafts.com/CHARTS/NOS/NOSMAIN.html
norden's listing for the Nostalgic Needle
http://www.nordencrafts.com/CHARTS/TSW/TSWMAIN.htm
the Samplar Works
http://www.nordencrafts.com/CHARTS/WRK/WRKMAIN.htm
the Workbasket

Another designer doing nice reproductions is "Handwork" , she's also based
in Virginia

I know there are lots more out there - but thought you might find something
at these. Definitely check out The Goode Huswife, and Bright Needle - they
have some lovely pictorial designs of the period.

http://www.samplings.com/us.html
Is the site for Finkel & daughter. They are a very well known dealer,
collector of Antique Samplers. Amazing, authentic stuff - you can just take
a look - for the reference to periods.

Anyhow, I hope this helps with some designs that suit you - at least it's
some nice browsing. Good luck.

Ellice