Accessories
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Scroll Frames
$ 27.00
Visit product page →These are the full frames as listed on the stitch-along resources. They have webbing on the roller bars for whip stitching your linen on. Each one comes with the side bars as listed as four knobs so you can attach linen and lace it to the sides, having several frames up at the same time.
Silken Trinket Box Kit requires 1 - 18" roller bars with 6" sides.
Harmony with Nature Casket requires the 2 frame bundle:
14" roller bar with 12" sides and a 14" roller bar with 8" sides.
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Slate Frames
$ 128.00 - $ 157.00
Visit product page →Wooden slate frames for working sides of a casket. The roller with its webbing to stitch your linen to is 16" wide with adjustable side slats of 24". A set of turned wooden pegs to adjust the length are included as well as a spool of size 4 Londonderry Linen thread to use as the lacing of the side of the linen to the slats.
A fancy mirror sized frame is now available. It has 22" rollers and adjustable slats of 34".
Instructions on how to construct, attach and stretch your linen is given in Cabinet of Curiosities as well as a packet in the package.
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Bobbin Lace Spangles
$ 1.50
Visit product page →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.
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Marbled Paper for Trinket box
$ 2.50
This is a piece of marbled paper for the inside lid of a trinket box. The combing is very small in scale and was made in the traditional way with grinding of cochineal for the pink. 3" x 6" on dark holbart paper.Visit product page → -
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Stumpwork Fruit Forms
$ 1.00 - $ 5.75
Visit product page →These cotton forms are perfectly sized to be covered in needlelace and adorn stumpwork trees. Each form has a hole in one end to allow knots to be buried and needles can be pushed through the packed cotton.
The forms range from 3/8" -5/8" in size depending on the form. The forms are available in groups:- Acorns and pears
- Apples, oranges, and lemons.
- Small berries
- Strawberries
- A set of fruit and veggie forms including long berries, smaller lemons, onions, turnips, and gourds. Only two of each shape is included. Great for food in baskets, cornucopias or on plates.
- A set of wooden forms can be used for acorns as well.
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Stumpwork Eyes
$ 10.00 - $ 20.00
Visit product page →Thistle Threads is very excited to introduce a series of eight types of glass eyes reproduced from eyes used in 17th century stumpwork. These eyeballs were designed with Holly Paolino, a glass artist. The eyes are made in a multi-step process to create a colored eye with black iris on a ring to keep the eye attached to the embroidery.
The eyeballs are made in a 2 mm size and a 3 mm size in four colors - blue, cream, brown, and yellow and are available in singles and matched pairs.
A single eye would be used for a bird or animal that is shown in profile, a matched pair for when an animal is shown face on. In general, the 2 mm eyes work well for squirrels and birds, the larger eyes for medium scale animals such as lions, leopards, stags, etc. -
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Key Tassels
$ 25.00
These silk tassels were made by a historic passementerie company specially for our caskets. Two small twisted thread ties with seared ends allow you to attach the tassel with its florets made from silk wrapped strip to the key. Measuring a bit over 2" long, they are a fantastic addition to your casket.Visit product page → -
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Mica
$ 2.50
Five pieces of 1 cm x 4 cm pieces of mica. These industrial grade cut pieces of mica make the work of castle and house windows much easier. This amount might do a whole casket full of buildings. To use, take an exacto knife and carefully place the blade on the corner edge of the mica to split it into thinner layers. Repeat this process again for each split at least once until the mica becomes thin enough to cut easily with a pair of metal scissors. At thin layers, the mica can also be pierced with a needle without fracturing if desired.Visit product page → -
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Parchment
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This is specially thinned goat skin parchment. It can be cut into 1/8" wide strips to make silk wrapped garlands. Each 4" x 5" piece will yield 32 strips which can surround a medium oval shape. Wrap the strips with soie ovale in your choice of colors.Visit product page → -
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Tire Couching Silk
$ 6.00
Visit product page →This is a very fine, tightly twisted filament silk that is extremely useful when couching silk wrapped purls, gold threads, and attaching spangles. The neutral gold color blends in with any metal thread couching and its small size (yet strong) enables it to disappear when using it with silk wrapped purls. I find that I would rather use one thread for all these uses than continually change the thread in my needle. Each spool has 109 yards on it.
There is gold (either #86 or it's replacement #74) and silver (#28).
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Semi-Precious Stones
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These vials contain common semi-precious stones and pearls that are used in stumpwork. Seed pearls are often found strung as necklaces for women. A cut one inch length of seed pearls is included in the seed pearl vial as well as any single pearls that fell off the length. If you intend to use the pearls as a necklace, you might carefully lay the length in place and couch it down and then hide the ends, removing any excess pearls. Seed pearls are notoriously hard to fit a needle in, therefore the string they arrived on was kept intact. If you need to restring, heavily wax a thread and try to feed it through the hole without a needle.Visit product page →
Grottos on stumpwork often had semi-precious stones, shells and coral attached to the embroidered rocks. The stones could be as large as 3/4" in width on some large stumpwork pictures I have seen. The vial of semi-precious stones contains one of each of the following eleven beads which range in size, none larger than 4mm in diameter. The sampling is intended to save the student from purchasing large quantities of each to get a sampling for their grotto.
Aventurine
Bloodstone
Amethyst
Coral
Cultured Pearl
Garnet
Faceted Hematite
Faceted Moonstone
Malachite
Unakite
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Stumpwork Basics
$ 25.00
Each basics package contains a 36" x 36" sheet of 3 mm wool felt, a 1 1/2 yard piece of pencil wool roving, five feet of 32 gauge wire, a 18" x 20" piece of pellon, an 8" x 8" piece of clear blue contact paper and five pieces of 9" x 9" clear contact paper.Visit product page → -
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Gift Card
$ 10.00 - $ 360.00
Visit product page →Shopping for someone else but not sure what to give them? Give them the gift of choice with a Thistle Threads Gift Card.
Gift cards are delivered by email and contain instructions to redeem them at checkout. Our gift cards have no additional processing fees.
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Slipper Finishing Kits
$ 10.00
Visit product page →These are finishing kits for several of my published projects. The kit has the six die cut skirtex, batt and card forms needed to make any of these slippers for pieces I have published in the past. Sized for 32 count or 36 count. Under the Needlework Projects section of my website, www.thistle-threads.com are several slipper projects.
