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Middlesex Tree Sampler - Needlework Nibble
$ 19.00
Thistle Threads
Middlesex Tree Sampler - Needlework Nibble
$ 19.00
Family register samplers became popular on the East Coast during the last part of the 18th century into the early 19th century. Ittenerant painters traveled up and down the coast, drawing family trees for hire. One artist had his paintings replicated in needlework by a unknown school in the Middlesex region of Massachusetts. The majority of the known samplers of this style were made by girls from Lexington or Watertown.
This needlework nibble is in support of the new tree samplers acquired in 2014 by the Lexington Historical Society that are in need of conservation. $5 of each kit sale will go to the conservation effort.
The kit contains the finishing materials including check silk, ultra suede, ribbons, and doctors cloth. A limited number have the mother-of-pearl buttons or you can use your own.
The instructions for the sampler are not in the kit but are available online.
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Visit product page →Martha's Rose is a 3" diameter ornament worked with Soie Paris. The instructions are downloadable as part of the mini-course offered through my teaching platform for $15. The course called "Martha Edlin - Her Life and Embroidery" has a video presentation on her biography based on my original research, a video on her embroideries, and this set of project instructions. An additional video on how to handle filament silks is included.
The mini-course can be watched as many times as you want for 31-days from date of purchase (Of course, extra time will be added for any technical snafus) and the instructions for the ornament are downloadable to keep. $5 of each course registration is a donation to the Textile Department at the V&A. The images are licensed for a specific number of spots.
This optional kit includes: Foxtail Millet 45ct Linen, needle, six colors of soie paris, a piece of pink silk for the backing, silk facette gimp and silk lacet for the ornament edging. The maker will have to provide matt board and batting for the finishing.
A note - my teaching platform and shop each have different user/passwords as they are hosted by different companies.
Once you order the course, I will follow up with an email with your user/password to the teaching site and instructions on how to access the course. NOTE: the email goes to the email you use for your Thistle Threads shopify account and is from the shopify system. Almost always I get the email sent to you within 8 hours and most likely within 1 hour. So please look at that email inbox (Spouse? Old yahoo email? Former employer email? Yes, most reasons you don't get the user/passwords are this. Email me the next day if you don't get it right away).
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Visit product page →Make a set of these 2.5" long gloves by whip-stitching lacet braid along the edge to itself. They were inspired by a set that were found in the Martha Edlin Casket at the V&A. Many caskets had small projects in them that the girls made, perhaps as starter projects.
This kit contains the lacet braid, soie paris threads, gold thread, needle and contact paper and muslin needed. The instructions are available here for free.
It is helpful to have something to protect the ends from fraying while working. Fray check or Japanese rice glue works well. You can buy Japanese rice glue from the pull down menu.
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Try these instructions to make your own pansy to place in a drawer of your casket - or use the instruction to inspire you to make a whole bouquet of flowers to display in a small bud vase.Something to keep the lacet braid from raveling is useful. You can use fray check or Japanese rice glue. You can buy a tube from the pull down menu.
