Edith Blöcher
Embroidery and Crochet
At the beginning of the 20th century, embroidery for sale was carried out in Appenzell in Switzerland and in Germany in the Fankenwald.
The embroideries were of the highest quality and were made by different people, each embroiderer did what she did best, embroidering scrolls, working faces, pulling threads and embroidering the background, embroidering the ladder, which are the very narrow hemstitch strips that run in all directions, embroidering the edge ...
This enabled women to earn money, even if they were only paid a little for many hours of work.
I bought some of these old embroideries back from America and show them here in a book. I try to explain the technique, even though we can hardly do it today because our basic fabrics / linen and embroidery threads are too coarse.
Appenzell Embroidery, Franconian Embroidery
and feinest Monogram Alphabets
Book
Exquisite Whitework
Appenzell embroidery, Franconia embroidery and Alphabet Samplers
Size about 21 x 28 cm, 96 pages,
Price on Amazon in Germany: 19,86 Euro
The pictures on this page are from the contents of the book
A greatly enlarged detail of another handkerchief with Appenzell embroidery
The black is still the graphite preliminary drawing, the handkerchief was never washed.
A fine batiste cushion with Frankenwälder embroidery.
The hemstitch stripes are plentiful, but only straight and form a geometric pattern. The small raised dots in the hemstitch squares are also typical of Franconian embroidery. Here, too, the oh-so-fine fabric is pulled and bundled with thread precision, but without figures being embroidered.
Finely embroidered alphabets from the same period also match this fine white embroidery.
This alphabet comes from the Colditz school of needlework.
Girls in particular were trained in embroidery here.
This website is purely informative; the books can be purchased via Amazon or via my online shop handarbeitshaus.de.
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oder über meinen Webshop handarbeitshaus.de
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Diese Webseite ist rein informativ, die Bücher kann man über Amazon kaufen
oder über meinen Webshop handarbeitshaus.de