Thistle Threads

This course is running again with 50 spots starting on June 1st, 2024. 

Paying by Installment - click the blue link for PayPal subscription:

18-months at $38.75/month with USA Shipping 

18-months at $40/month with Canada Shipping 

18-months at $41.50/month with Rest of World Shipping

This 18-month course is going to take a very deep dive into the whitework/cutwork found on English band samplers of the 17th century. While we are attracted to the large geometry patterns, often called reticella, there are several other techniques which are characteristic and found on most samplers of the period in concert with these complex bands. Over 1/2 of the course will be devoted to the reticella techniques.

The course is a mix of learning techniques, projects and designing your own whitework band sampler. You are being given enough materials to work one to three small pieces of linen with trial stitches so you can feel confident with techniques and material choices. Then there are two sampler projects, each with one band of reticella to explore a mixed colored counted work band sampler with the cutwork. One is based on a sampler from the Winterthur Museum collection and the second is inspired from a favorite piece of mine in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. This piece is a unique example of colored silk threads being used for reticella and I think it is a unique project that combines ease of sight because of the colored threads but also technical challenges to hide the color changes and thus it provides a master class in this reticella technique on the whole.

The third project is a punta-in-aria length of lace.  A fourth project can be worked, a band sampler of your own design based on all the materials we will be looking at, provided patterns, and the real 16th-17th century pattern books.  In order to do this, the course is taking on the unique challenge that presented the 17th century teacher/embroiderer - the geometry and math of this type of work. When looking at band samplers, we will find that often the pattern didn’t quite fit the chosen width of the sampler the person had chosen to make and that had consequences that had to be filled in or not. It could make for awkward spots in an otherwise stunning piece. I wanted to solve that and answer the questions of how to scale the patterns, how wide to work the bands, over what count and if you were working all these bands with disparate scales of withdrawn threads, how to make them all fit exactly in the boundaries of the sampler without excess room left over in the band.

The course will include detailed photographs of at least five samplers to illustrate techniques. This will be augmented by Pintrest boards to go with the course as both a general reference and specific references in the course text to illustrate points.  

Each technique will be accompanied by many patterns which can be cut and arranged and used directly as patterns for your personal sampler. I will also be giving guidance on how to convert many of the patterns found in the 16th-17th century pattern books to the correct scale so you can use them as well as how to look at a pattern and determine the best stitch choices and progression of working the pattern.

Choices of materials is a big part of this course. You have three linen counts that the course has been designed to use. A 30ct, 40ct, and a 53/55ct linen have been provided with enough of each to be used for two projects - the one I intended and your choice of which for the personal sampler. So the ambitious will have extra linen for other projects of this type or can repurpose it.  Both silk and linen threads will be used for the samplers matching the thread to the original pieces.

The kits will include all three linens mentioned, silk threads, linen threads, needles, and special blue contact paper.

The course requires a basic understanding of counted work including running stitch, satin stitch, cross stitch and a willingness to explore other counted stitches such as alternating backstitch and Montenegrin stitch.  Full instructions for these stitches is included as well as diagrams specific for the motifs to enable a student to turn corners and make diagonals with these initially more challenging counted stitches.  

This is the 2023 Christmas Ornament kit in limited release.  75 kits are available for the project, including just the right amounts of the silks, spangles, beads and trim to work one ornament.  The instructions for the 4" diameter ornament with sampler stitches are available for free on the teaching site for download.  If you like buying ala carte, the spangles and trim are also currently available in the shop.  

The kit includes 40 ct Picadill White Linen, soie paris silks, five types of shaped spangles, beads, a needle and the gilt bullion/check cord or 9 OR gilt bullion/silver check No 6 needed for finishing.  Not included are fabric backing and card stock/felt for building the ornament.

2126 is a new color in 3mm

During the summer of 2013 I was able to spend time at Au Ver a Soie and learn more about their capabilities. I knew they made some round braids (below) but the most fun was digging through the boxes of special things they made for the couture industry, looking for ideas. One of the things I came upon were these absolutely beautiful flat silk braids. These seven rolls were already made and were looking for a customer and were in colors in our historic color palette already! Access Commodities immediately imported them for me - they are very close to the sweet bag braids used for frog purses, grape purses, and bags and will work wonderfully for them. 

I am selling them by the meter and will cut to measure so you can order multiple meters if needed and they will be continuous. The braids are just 3 mm wide.

Laying on top of the braids is a second type and much smaller. This is a pre-production sample of a braid used in stumpwork to make the small ties on shoes. This was my approval sample for a suite of braids to come in 2015 and placed here for scale.

An elegant set of needlework necessities that are carried in their own silk basket, just in time for Easter!  The needlework is done in cross stitch over one on 36ct linen and complimented by Marsha Brown Smith's inventive finishing.  

The kit includes all the finishing materials including the wooden bottom and brass feet (except a manila folder and matt board).  A bunny shaped thread winder is included as well.   

These laces are high quality trimmings in a variety of finishes.  They come in silver and antiqued silver as well as antiqued bronze. Use them as edgings for pincushions, stumpwork skirts or over a silk ribbon to add an interesting edge to a stumpwork casket.  They are sold in 1.5 yard lengths.

A new addition is a 2% Gold version of the 9 drm tambour, which is a more durable gold thread because of a thicker gold layer.

9 drm Gilt and 90% Silver Tambours (used on the Plimoth Jacket) were designed as metal bobbin lace threads.  They can also be used as passings for small scale stitches.  The scale of the threads, when paired and twisted in bobbin lace, produces the perfect reproduction thickness.  90% silver is used to prolong the lifetime of the metal appearance, as tarnishing is a natural occurrence for metal threads and was during the 17th century as well.

The tubes are 25 grams each.  We used a little over three tubes of each of the 9 drm Tambours to make all the bobbin lace for the Plimoth jacket. The lace is 1 1/4" deep and runs over several yards in length. 

These spangles are made by Mark Atchison, the same blacksmith who made the spangles for the Plimoth Jacket, in the same way!  Now they are available in large enough quantities for gold and silver lace projects.  Authentic in every way, from the periodic nips in the bottom of the tear drop shape to the flat edges that come from the historic process here and there.  Mark hand punches each one out from a gilt silver.  

If you ever wanted to rim your project with authentic metal bobbin lace, the 9drm Gilt and 90% Silver Tambour threads in the shop were developed for the Plimoth Jacket lace and work perfectly with these spangles.

The spangles are sold per piece so you can get just the right number for your lace pattern and length.

These are historically inspired bottles sized for our caskets.  The tops are made of brass and screw on and off the bottle top.  They are available in pairs or singles.  Order depending on the casket and the color of tape you are using.  These have been made using the same bottle making process as they were in the 17th century and are thus just as wonky as the originals.  We have taken care to match pairs as best as we can in height and appearance.  

Double Casket = pair of bottles

Flat Casket with Doors = pair of bottles

Flat Casket = pair of bottles

Short Flat Casket (Harmony) = single bottle.

If you are in the 2020/21 Harmony with Nature course, Four Seasons Project Course or Five Senses Project Course and will be sent a casket as part of these courses, then you will also receive a set of bottles as well as inkwells (if a double casket).  No need to purchase separately.  If you need a single bottle or installment for a single bottle, email me for a link.

Pair of TIN bottles USA Shipping 10-months ($28.75/month)

Pair of BRASS bottles USA Shipping 10-months ($28.75/month)

Pair of TIN bottles Canada Shipping  10-months ($29.35/month)

Pair of BRASS bottles Canada Shipping  10-months ($29.35/month)

Pair of TIN bottles Rest of World Shipping  10-months ($30.55/month)

Pair of BRASS bottles Rest of World Shipping  10-months ($30.55/month) 

The back and edges of mirror frames were covered in silk velvet, most often burgundy in color.  I currently have a supply of burgundy silk velvet for use in covering my mirror frames.  The door frame requires a 1/2 yard cut and the fancy frame requires a 1/2 yard cut.  The width of the velvet is 55".

Rolling admissions

This is a read-only version of the very popular Cabinet of Curiosities course.  The course is 18-months and over 1000+ pages of information and photos.  Read-only means that the instructions/history sections are downloadable but there are no kits for the course.  New students accepted late.

This course is of interest to anyone who may already be taking a project class to work a embroidered casket (i.e. Harmony with Nature, Five Senses, or Four Seasons).  It contains all the historical background to the period, stories on the cabinets, designs, bottles, inkwells, boxes, casket toys, discussions of beaded baskets and other topics related to the embroidered cabinets.  It also includes over 1000 photos of historic pieces up close.  The course provides extensive context to the embroidered boxes and related objects.  

While the instructions for the small projects that were included in the original running of the course, the kits will not be provided.  Students can gather materials and make any of the projects.  But current supply chain issues makes it difficult for a kit offering with the course.

There are instructions for several mini-projects as well as a trinket box in the instructions and access to all the finishing videos for the different cabinet sizes/configurations.  

The course also contains access to the extensive collection of motifs and pre-designed caskets.  A person can use these to modify a casket in progress or design 17th century themed pictures.  Templates for the outside of the caskets I had produced are part of the course, some handy woodworkers have fabricated boxes with simpler internal parts using these to match.   No instructions on how to fabricate a box are included.

Periodically, a casket is returned to me by a student who has decided not to work it (a change in health is the most common reason).  In those cases, I will post the box here available to be purchased with its finishing materials and course for those who want to design their own.  I also maintain a list of those who have already taken the Cabinet of Curiosities course who are looking for a particular cabinet type and try to match people up (but no guarantees).  

Please email me with further questions:  tricia@alum.mit.edu

I currently have 160 spots left in my licensing agreements for historic photos to run this.

Two real metal woven tapes have been made in France for our caskets; a sterling silver tape replicating the original edgings for caskets as well as a gilt version. The sterling silver metal threads made for these tapes were made by wrapping cream silk at a 50% wrap coverage, like the originals. The silk was used to give a better hand to allow the tape to go over corners. The tape will tarnish over time and achieve a similar look to the originals, the gilt version will also darken with age. 

The width is 6.5 mm to match the originals.

A double casket requires approximately 14 meters

A flat top with doors casket needs approximately 9 meters.

A flat top casket needs approximately 9 meters

A short flat top casket needs approximately 7 meters

The tapes are sold by the meter and are cut to order in as long of continuous pieces as possible.  

This is now discontinued.  The key maker retired after the batch was made almost 10 years ago.  Mold gone.  

The casket key is approximately 1.25" long and is made of steel. It is a reproduction key and two styles of the grip are sold based on availability of castings  If you are buying locks for your own cabinet making or need an extra key for your casket, this is the piece.

For those who own antique caskets, this key has been ground to work in antique locks.  I am happy to take returns if it does not work in your antique casket or suggest how to grind the key to work.

Chardon Coupe and Bouclette are trims that are made for the fluffy band above the skirt on a tassel.  When I first saw them being made, I recognized them as trims I had seen edging drapes on stumpwork which made me want a set in pinks or yellows.  Then I quickly realized that it would make amazing grass!  The texture could either be cut or looped and the passementerie maker convinced me that the best was made from two colors.  So I have made a series incorporating the whole green/yellow series as well as a new cream-4611 color!  

It is sold per the meter.

To use the bouclette, find the thin white nylon chain stitch on the loops and grab an end of it and pull down, it will unzip and release the loops that can then be fluffed up.  The silk is twisted between wires and these can be couched over to stitch the trim in place laying down or standing up (like grasses).  

To use the coupe, you only need to couch it down over the wires that bind the cut silk loops together.  I used it to make the grass under my flower urn inside the Harmony with Nature Casket.  It took just minutes to do that whole mound!

While we have the cream-4611 color, there is very little of the green/yellow family left.  I like it so much we are returning it to manufacturing.

The 2023 Witney exhibition catalog is their first hardcover book covering an extremely rare collection of treasures of the schoolroom from 1650-1750.  The primary collection is the 1667/1668 casket on the cover worked by Elizabeth Hall at the Shacklewell School outside Hackney and containing a number of small casket toys made by her.  The family continued to add items to the box such as a handmade layette set, small whitework pieces and their patterns.  The box also came with a set of samplers made later by other family members and friends from this small Quaker meeting.  What is stunning is the research done by Rebecca Scott and Isabella Rosner regarding Elizabeth, her friends and family using the extensive collection of family letters.  Never has so much been known about a set of embroidery from the period.  Copies of some of the important letters are shown in the book.  The casket and sampler worked by Hannah Downes, now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum's was made contemporaneously adding to the information.  Samplers worked by girls who went to school and were attendant at Elizabeth's wedding are included in the exhibit giving a fleshed out understanding of these women's worlds at the time.

This tome is a follow on to the 2022 Witney exhibiton catalog which extensively covered samplers of the period (and many are on display with the Hall sets now.  But it is the prequel to the 2024 Witney exhibition catalog which will be larger and will cover more caskets with their internal items which also have impressive information on the girls and their schools. 

The 126-page book has full page photography, including many views of the casket and very magnified views of the casket smalls in the clear photographs you have come to expect from Witney's catalogs with an essay about each piece.  

Scratch and dent - the rough shipping has dented or slightly scratched the outer jacket on a few books.  I am offering them at a discount for anyone who doesn't mind.

This is the last of the Crinkle Gimp.  I had taken it off the market to save for the Harmony course and that is now all taken care of.  This is the rest of the threads and we had decided that it was too hard to produce well to keep it in production, as much as we liked it.

6233 = 741 pink

6260 = 3334 purple

Details Coming Soon.  If you want to get first notice that this class is registering, sign up on the interest page.

A new sampler design using a combination of counted stitches and free embroidery using crinkle silk.  Crinkle silk was an American invention on the East Coast at the end of the Colonial Era to the 1830s.  Made by unraveling or untwisting thread the twist caused the filament silk to kink and this wave in the silk was retained when working long satin stitches.  The technique seems to have started in northern Massachusetts or Boston and traveled around the colonies and early United States as a way to work samplers.  The light play that the use of crinkle silk gives makes it a worthwhile technique to learn how to use to make your samplers more authentic looking.  Learning to work with the untwisted thread will be the focus of the project.

The design is small, about 7" x 10" and features a large flower display at the bottom.  Worked in colors of blue, green, red, yellow and pink with neutral browns it is inspired by many different samplers of the period.

NEW!  Gilt Folien Die Stamped pieces:

Gilt Folien No 411 - small cup shaped die cut spangles that are patterned on both sides.  They can be held down with a bead, stitches, or a large french knot.  1 gram (approx. 20-24 in bag).

Gilt Folien No 198 - small flower shaped die cut pieces that are held down by stitch over them 2-3 times with a gold or colored thread.  1/2 gram (about 14) or 1 gram packages (about 28).  

This is one of the most exciting product finds in years for me - spangles that are shaped!  These spangles are made the way our normal ones are, but are then stamped with a die again to make them either textured or have a flower type shape.  There are two which were sent in the Frostings Box 6 (No. 22 and No. 24) and two NEW ones (No 27 and No 23).  

They are gilt and packaged in bags of 1 gram each.  They are almost 4-5 mm in diameter.  Depending on the spangle type, there are between 20-23 per gram.

You can imagine all kinds of ways to embellish them by using colored thread to secure them, a colored silk purl chip, a bead, etc.

This is now discontinued

The Door Hinge is approximately 3" long x 1.5" wide and is used to attach doors lids to the casket body. The Double Casket uses four door hinges. Each door hinge comes with eight tinned pins to attach it to the casket. Each hinge is three separate castings and is assembled by hand in England. It is cast from brass and then tinned like the originals.   Four door hinges are required for a set of doors.

Note: These are available to purchase if you are building your own casket. If you are purchasing one from Thistle Threads, all hardware is included.

This is a finishing kit for the double casket as a convenience for those who haven't purchased any finishing materials.  

Installment payments (includes shipping):

9 months Gilt Double Casket Finishing Kit ($113.68/month)- USA

9 months Silver Double Casket Finishing Kit ($113.68/month) - USA

9 months Gilt Double Casket Finishing Kit ($116.13/month) - Canada

9 months Silver Double Casket Finishing Kit ($116.13/month) -Canada

9 months Gilt Double Casket Finishing Kit ($118.43/month) - Rest of World

9 months Silver Double Casket Finishing Kit ($118.43/month) - Rest of World

Kit includes: 

9 cream papers

18 cream with gold or silver edging papers

4 meters interior gold or silver edging tape

14 meters gold or silver woven tape

3 wheat paste

1/2 yard cream silk ribbon

2 blued tacks (3/8" size, for carpets and in every hardware store)

What is NOT included:

mirror

lining silk/velvet (these are still available in a choice of colors)

brush, reemay, micro spatula and plastic card

1 marbled paper - your choice, I can give you resources

hardware (it is included in your casket)

casket feet (turned feet were included in your casket. 

Note:  These materials can be individual bought on the site if you already have some of them.  If you were planning for purple papers, please contact me as there are a limited number of purple papers and I need to have the edging papers made to order as I am discontinuing both.

Currently I do not have available caskets

This kit will include:

• 165 tubes Soie Paris
  
• 20-count Montrose Linen
  
• Slate frame
• Needles
• Double Casket with Brass Hardware (Tin is shown and no longer available)
• Turned wood feet (shown in pictures vs. video)
• Cream and Purple handmade finishing papers
• Pink lining velvet and silk
• Purple edging papers with gold stampings
• Gold woven edging tapes for interior and exterior of casket
• Italian beeswax rubbed marbled paper
• Antiqued mirror
• Old fashioned tacks and silk ribbon 
• Finishing tools (brush, relay, micro spatula, scraping card)
• Wheat paste
• Brass inkwell and pounce pot
• Bottles with brass tops

The online instruction will include:

• 18 graphs for the panels
  
• 20+ hours of finishing videos to cover the casket with the finishing papers and adhere the embroideries to the sides.
  

If you like the look of this casket and it is outside your budget, There are some small trinket boxes with tent stitching as the project - this is sold as a kit and there are about 50 of them left.  The trinket boxes are 3" x 5" x 2.5" in size and can hold scissors and some threads next to your stitching table.

• Casket is: 11.5" wide x 8" deep x 12" high with feet

• Worked in tent stitch over 20-count linen

• It is designed to be worked over a 24-month period.  It is not planned on being run again as the cabinet maker is retiring next year and these are all the boxes I will get.  

• There will be between 3-4 shipments for the course.  The linen, slate frame and the threads will be shipped first.  The second shipment will be the finishing papers, glues, tapes, etc. A third shipment will include the box   Box sizes are different and not all items can be shipped in one box.   The shipments are timed to correspond with payment milestones.

• The instructions are released one lesson a month online.  All previous lessons remain open after a new lesson is released.  An email is sent on the 1st each month to remind you to log in.

• You stitch at your own pace.  There is an online forum (NING) which all students past and present in Thistle Threads courses use as a discussion and Q&A forum.  Pictures can be posted.

• Orders paid in full will have access to all lessons and materials shipped earlier, taking into account issues with near-holiday shipping and the casket making schedule.  Materials are only shipped after students have been given fair warning with an email so they can be on the look-out for boxes and give notice of vacation holds. 

• US shipping is priority mail.  Overseas shipping is first class mail except for the wooden box which will come priority mail. Customs duties are the responsibilities of the student.  I can not ship marked 'gift' or 'educational materials'.  * If you live in a country with iffy postal system (South Africa, some of Asia, and South America) there will be a surcharge for delivery with courier and I am happy to look into this with you, email me.

• Please do not email me with requests for box only, patterns-only, box building instructions, or to reprice the class without items you already have.  The answer is no.  Why is the answer no?

• There are 64 double caskets that have been set aside for new students who learned late about the Cabinet of Curiosities because my cabinet maker is retiring in 2020, I would not be able to supply a casket later.  Currently those 54 are being reserved for the Four Seasons Stumpwork Casket. There will absolutely not be any more double caskets beyond this as we have used up the locks we manufactured as well.  It was an amazing and fleeting project.
  

If you are interested in taking the course or finding out more, email me at tricia@alum.mit.edu  

If you want installments - click the BLUE text not the drop down menu. 

$30/month for 24-months instructions only (Instructions will be posted over 36 months, PayPal can't do subscriptions longer than 24-months)

THIS COURSE IS ONLY OPEN TO THOSE COC STUDENTS WHO ALREADY OWN ONE OF THE FOLLOWING CASKETS:

• Double casket
• Flat Casket with Doors
• Flat Casket

There will be a version of this course for new people - after the piece is stitched and so the price is known.  If you want to be on the wait list for this - email tricia@alum.mit.edu

This 36-month online course is open for reservations - instructions start Jan 1st, 2023.  This will be run exactly like the stitch-along for the Harmony casket.  Students will pay for monthly instructions for the sides and will provide all threads and materials.  It is assumed that the student has the required casket already as there are no more to sell.

The design is shown in the black and white diagram.  It will be worked in stumpwork in a variety of COC threads with an emphasis on raised work - dresses, detached flowers, feet peaking out, etc. Thread bundles will be periodically offered for those who want to 'kit' the class as they go.  If you are thinking of 'kitting' the project with the thread bundles I will offer - please let me know (tricia@alum.mit.edu) so I can put the correct numbers aside.  This isn't a commitment, it just helps me choose threads for the project as I go so I don't choose one so rare that it can't be supplied in those approximate numbers.  

Design drawings will be available for those who own a flat casket or flat casket with doors.  People are encouraged to mix their own elements in or just use a few panels for their casket to make it more their own.  

There will be an insert for the tray and a set of panels for the inside of the doors that are embroidered.  The pictures of the flowers in the baskets are the inside of the doors already finished.  This pattern, instructions and thread kit will be made available soon separately for those COC students who are already working on a design of their own and want to incorporate these inner doors into their design.  The instructions and thread kit for the insert will also be available separately for those who aren't doing this casket design.

Please email me at tricia@alum.mit.edu for any questions.

 NOTE:  The video is of a different casket and not the one for this course - it is only an example of what a finished casket looks like.  The black and white drawing is the design for the course.  It will be embroidered in stumpwork.

This gimp thread has a pair of gimps wrapped around the core giving it a really regular but bumpy texture.  It is delightful to couch in place for stems, grass, trees, and flowers.  I have alternated it with regular gimp to get really textural effects.

The spools have 5 meters on each no matter if the spool is large or small (spools are running low so we are using what we can).  There will be some more of many of these colors when the new batch of spools arrives.

These are two limited edition colors that couldn't be made in enough quantity to go into the Frostings Box.  One is a dark green color, 3725, and the second is a gray from the historic color line, 3842.  I can just imagine a bunny worked in this color!

Each spool contains 5 meters of thread.  It can be couched down with a matching or contrasting color.

Purple papers are being discontinued.  If you need, please email to order while supplies of purple paper last

The same lining papers are being used to make the stamped edge strips. These strips can be used in their entirety for thick edges or cut in half to use on thin edges, effectively doubling the edge length covered by a strip. I am stocking purple and cream with either silver or gold stamping. Many students will want to pair the color of the stamping with the woven trim and hardware color. 

Like the originals, the stampings sometimes have edges that are doubled or faintly stamped. These artifacts on the originals are a result of the thin nature of the media being stamped. My bookbinder takes almost 20 minutes to cut and stamp each strip to reduce artifacts that are natural to the process on paper. Excessive wiping of the edge when moist can rub some of the stamping off, so be careful that your fingers are dry when doing this step. 

Each strip has a useable stamped length of 73 cm (146 cm if halved). It will take 6 strips to cover the edges of a Flat Casket.  I was exuberant in the edgings on my double casket and used 17 strips.  You can get away with less if needed.

These faux threads are my favorites for working 17th century metal stitches such as the plaited braid, reverse chain, ceylon, ladder and the like when learning. The faux set is great for learning the stitches before you progress to working with the more expensive real metal threads. 

These threads should be used with a Japanese needle as it will both keep the thread from shreading in the needle and will open a nice hole in your linen to pull the thread through. The #9/10 Japanese needle works well for the all these Wyres. 

There are 15 meters per tube

New - Antique Silver Woven Faux Tape

A straight woven tape (3/16" wide) is now available in both antique gold and silver for use on the edges of caskets. If using the woven faux tape, use two widths to edge a casket to give the right proportions. The faux tapes are sold in per yard.

The picture compares the Antique Silver and Antique Gold Woven Faux Tape to the real gold woven tape woven to match the edges for 17th century caskets.  Two widths of the faux tape give the right proportions.  

Currently there is no lace edge webgimpe in stock.  I am evaluating if I will bring it back to the shop.

This is ONLY if you already own a casket.  There are no more caskets available for purchase.

These are the graphs for the Five Senses Casket. The graphs are provided for all three sizes of caskets (Double Casket, Flat Casket with Doors and Flat Casket). There are several options:

 1) Buy the graphs to go with the 24 ct Montrose linen and casket you have

2) Buy the graphs and 24 ct. Rain Barrel linen (reproduction of the Montrose linen).  Use your soie paris from stash and supplement it to work it for your casket

3) Buy the graphs, 24-ct Rain Barrel linen, and all 165 tubes of soie paris needed.

4) Buy the 165 tubes of soie paris

A slate frame (16" rollers with 14" or 16" slats) is suggested for working.  It is strongly suggested that you sign up for a finishing kit as soon as they are available again.

Your user/password will be activated for the graphs folder.  The graphs for each side are presented in order of the casket stitch along.  A full graph and then close up graphs in color with symbols superimposed as well as only symbols are included.  

This project was inspired by the pincushion in the Martha Edlin casket using a different pattern but a similar color scheme.  A small piece, 2" x 2.5", it is worked on 24-count Rain Barrel with Soie Paris threads.  A piece of wonderful real silk velvet is included for the backing.  A perfect quick project as it requires very little counting and is large scale!   

The instructions are free and available for download

This is a finishing kit for the flat casket as a convenience for those who haven't purchased any finishing materials.

Installment payments (includes shipping):

9 months Gilt Flat Casket Finishing Kit ($57.18/month) - USA

9 months Silver Flat Casket Finishing Kit ($57.18/month) - USA

9 months Gilt Flat Casket Finishing Kit ($59.63/month) - Canada

9 months Silver Flat Casket Finishing Kit ($59.63/month) - Canada

9 months Gilt Flat Casket Finishing Kit ($61.93/month) - Rest of World

9 months Silver Flat Casket Finishing Kit ($61.93/month) - Rest of World

Kit includes: 

6 cream papers

6 cream with gold or silver edging papers

1 meters interior gold or silver edging tape

8 meters gold or silver woven tape

3 wheat paste

1/2 yard cream silk ribbon

2 blued tacks  (3/8" size, for carpets and in every hardware store)

What is NOT included:

mirror

1 marbled paper - your choice, I can give you resources

lining silk/velvet (these are still available in a choice of colors)

brush, reemay, micro spatula and plastic card

hardware (it is included in your casket)

casket feet (turned feet were included in your casket. 

Note:  These materials can be individual bought on the site if you already have some of them.  If you were planning for purple papers, please contact me as there are a limited number of purple papers and I need to have the edging papers made to order as I am discontinuing both.