Edith Blöcher
Embroidery and Crochet
Hessian or Schwalm Embroidery
Hessian embroidery is characterised by embroidered motifs + tendrils and leaves, which are bordered with coral stitches / knotted stitches and chain stitches and embroidered with certain filling stitches.
Schwalm embroidery is when the motifs are limited to classic motifs such as the sun, tulip, bird and heart. Schwalm embroidery can also be supplemented as desired with satin stitch leaves and coral stitch tendrils
Traditionally, stuffed hemstitches are often combined with embroidery.
Book on Schwalm embroidery by Edith Blöcher
Schwalm Embroidery Pattern Book
Size approx. 21.6 x 21.6 cm, 104 pages, content black and white,
(because the book is so much cheaper and this embroidery technique does not need color)
Available via Amazon , price at Amazon 10,06 Euro
Contents: over 70 filling patterns, 10 darning hemstitches + pea hole hemstitch, some patterns for cushions, 4 cushions are also shown embroidered - and all explained in detail with little text and lots of pictures
Embroidery material:
Hessian embroidery requires a countable base fabric, preferably woven in a square. But the fabric can be tightly woven, you pull threads for the filling stitches.
People like to work with really fine linen, which has 14 to 16 threads/cm. The more threads the fabric has, the more patterns can be embroidered in a motif.
Embroidery is usually done with four-ply embroidery thread. Thicker thread for the coral stitches and chain stitches on the outside, finer thread for the filling stitches.
A perfectly embroidered doily in Hessian embroidery
Schwalm embroidery motif
The motif is surrounded by coral stitch and chain stitch. Every 4th thread in both directions is pulled out and now the remaining threads are bundled with a pattern.
A historical Hessian embroidery
The linen was actually light-colored and the piece was an arm cuff of a ladies' blouse.
Back then, everything was so densely embroidered and often combined with a darned hemstitch and embroidered lace at the bottom.
Around 1970, the women of the Schwalm (a region north of Frankfurt) began to loosen up the dense embroidery and use it to embroider tablecloths. This gave rise to Hessian embroidery as we know it today.
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