For today’s post, I’d like to present a decorative embroidered griffin, worked in a laid and couched stitch commonly referred…
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Transferring a Design
I’m starting a new piece, this time a rendition of my wife’s heraldry. Here is Cwen’s registered device: Per fess…
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For a recent project, I decorated my new pouch with several tassels. I had not made tassels in quite some…
Continue ReadingOr Nue Heraldic Bee, part V
In my previous post, I completed the gold and pearl work for my embroidered heraldry, and appliqued it to the fabric…
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(See my previous posts on this project here, here, and here.) In my last post, I appliqued the goldwork to my pouch material.…
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As described in the last two installments on this project (see part I and part II), I had created an Or nue depiction…
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I’ve been a bit busy and ill this month, which took some time away from my projects. I also had…
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When I started playing in the SCA again recently, I decided to do a goldwork project, and picked my device…
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My second piece of goldwork was a heraldic pouch I made for then Queen Æsa of Northshield, using her personal device…
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I was reviewing my prior blogs and websites and found this item I did a number of years ago. It…
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