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Thistle Threads

Cabinet of Curiosities - History Course/Read Only - Open

$ 500.00

Thistle Threads

Cabinet of Curiosities - History Course/Read Only - Open

$ 500.00

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.