Frostings Club

All orders will be shipped in early October. 

The sixth session of the Frostings Club (What is the Frostings Club??) a lovely box containing 49 threads suitable for embroidery of caskets and stumpwork as well as other 17th century embroidery.  There are both wonderful gold threads and beautiful new silk threads in this box.  This box has some delightful items you will have never known existed.

You can choose "Frostings 6 with Experiment" as an option if you want to participate in historical research with about an hour of your stitching time.  This option is shown under the full pay.  If you are paying via installment, email me and I will see if I have enough experiment kits to send.  Full information is on this blog.  The experimental linen/thread is at no cost to you and does not increase the shipping.   I am looking for between 60-100 volunteers for this tent stitch and detached buttonhole sample.

This club is a way to get new threads manufactured or imported that weren't part of the original slate for the Cabinet of Curiosities and Stumpwork Courses.  During the 17th century, the embroiderer had a variety of threads that is unequaled today.  This has one shipment.  The boxes will be shipped via first class mail for all regions.

Of the threads in this box, many are limited to one manufacturing run for others, with leftover threads from the manufacturing run to be sold after the Frostings Box is delivered.  The threads are provided in 'useful' quantities, such as what would be sold retail and are not samples.  That means that a specialized gimp would be 2 meters, a trim would be between 18" and 1 yard, and so on.  The length was chosen to allow use in multiple places in your work according to the envisioned uses in 17th century embroideries.

There are 200 boxes to sell with all 49 items   Then 50 boxes will have 47 items and will be put up when the original 200 are sold.  The 2 threads will be missing as the base silk has run out while we have been making them and in this time of a pandemic, there is no reasonable chance of making a new dyeing in a reasonable timeframe.  Therefore, I will fill orders in order of receiving.