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Pulled Thread Embroidery

Formerly Dresden lace, today often geometric

Book from Edith Bloecher

Pulled Thread Embroidery

Book with 56 pages, content black/white
size about. 21x21 cm

with 64 filling patterns based on historical patterns + 2 instructions for runner and embroidered linen blouse

Price at Amazon: 8,20 Euro

Ajour embroidery technique

Border made of chain stitches or satin stitches, if you want to have borders, in any case certain areas or shapes are filled with pulled thread patterns.
In pulled thread embroidery, the threads of the fabric are pulled together, only rarely are threads pulled out.
The base fabric should still be countable and rather loosely woven so that the patterns come into their own.

Embroidery cotton or fine crochet thread is often used for embroidery, but you can actually use any thread, although the thickness of the base fabric and thread must match.

Pulled thread embroidery can be designed graphically or florally as in the picture above left.
In the Rococo period, finely embroidered shawls with floral pulled thread embroidery borders were made in Dresden, Frankfurt and Copenhagen.

Interesting, informative link to Dresden lace from the Dresden Museum:

https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Result/Index?page=1&q=Ziergründe

Linen blouse with floral ajour embroidery, is also in the book.

Some ajour embroidery patterns (without pulled thread) can also be embroidered on Aida fabric.

This means that ajour embroidery is also suitable for towel borders

Here is a book on this, but only in German language:

Ajourstickerei auf Aidastoff

Format ca 21 x 21 cm, 28 Seiten farbig,

Preis bei Amazon: 10,48 Euro

24 patterns of pulled thread embroidery modified for Aida fabric and then embroidered on 5 terry towels.

Pulled thread embroidery on towels with Aida fabric is fun, quick to embroider and has a great effect.

Especially for those who love geometric shapes.

historicpulled thread embroidery from England

This is an old ajour embroidery from England from my private collection.

Buch Bleckwenn, Dresdner Spitzen, Point de Saxe

Years ago there was an exhibition in Dresden about the Dresden lace, also called Point de Saxe

This is the book of the exhibition and shows one of the baroque lace on the cover. The book contains the pictures that you can also see at Skd-Online, but unfortunately only in such a small resolution and a lot of scientific text. It is not an instruction book for the embroidery technique, unfortunately.

Das Buch von Ruth Bleckwenn,
Dresdner Spitzen - Point de Saxe
Virtuose Weißstickerei des 18. Jahrhunderts
von der staatlichen Kunstsammlung Dresden, Kunstgewerbemuseum

It is the standard work on this subject in Germany, but unfortunately the book is hardly available any more.

And finally, a few intermezzo embroidery patterns from MEZ, formerly Kenzingen, which are unfortunately no longer or hardly ever on sale. But they show how pulled thread embroidery was done in the 90s. The patterns are multilingual, including English.