Thistle Threads Online University
Historically Inspired Needlework
A little box for your stitching thread ends called Harmony with Nature based on the embroidery project of the same name.
The 2025 Christmas ornament, part of the Christmas Baubles Series, featuring sampler stitches and a metal threads from the Tyrol region. These gilt folien add a wonderful sparkle to the piece. Gilt folien and threads available in shop
This course explores using silk passementerie fibers to trim our counted work ornaments to give them a bit of pizzazz. The counted work uses a variety of stitches to work the sampler in soie d'alger threads.
This scissors case as a glove, is inspired by the multitude of 17th century sweet bags and cushions which use tent stitch to work a design and then a long gobelin stitch in gold or silver thread for the background, imparting a delicious shine.
Learn the interlacing, braid and needlelace stitches of the 17th century as worked with gold threads for spot samplers and scrolling vine patterns typical of the period on home items and fashion.
Learn to work counted stitches on silk satin fabric
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