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Make lace by \ pulling threads 9
“Pulled thread” embroidery is a
way to transform fabric into iace.
With a few simple stitches, you can
make wonderful, lacy designs for
placemats, napkins, tablecloths
and other craft projects.
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An even-weave linen is ideal for
pulled thread work. To create a
design, you count threads, take a
stitch over the counted threads,
and then pull the threads together
into lacy designs.
Pulled thread work is -faster,
easier to do and, as a result, far
less expensive, than classic lace-
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making. According to "Danish
Pulled Thread Embroidery”
published by Dover, the technique
probably originated as a way to
imitate genome lace.
Pulled thread embroidery, also
called embroidered lace, has been
prized for centuries in Denmark.
In fact, the book is a product of the
Danish Handworkers’ Guild.
I In the book, authors Esther
Fangel, Ida Winckler and Agnete
Madson give instructions and
illustrations for historic pulled
thread designs. The pages are also
filled with photographs of fine
collars, handerkerchiefs, cuffs,
tablecloths, aprons and other
examples of embroidered lace
projects.
) The sample pulled thread stit
ches shown here come from the
book. Directions below show how
to use the stitches to make
decorative placemats.
MATERIALS: Evenweave linen
fabric or plain linen placemats;
embroidery thread and needle;
embroidery hoop; sewing sup
plies; tissue paper and pencil.
PREPARATION: 1. Cut linen to
ia-by-6 inches. 2. Either trace a
design, or draw your own design,
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on tissue paper. 3 Position tissue
paper on linen. 4. Baste along
pattern lines through tissue paper
and linen. 5. Carefully tear away
tissue paper without disturbing
basting lines. 6. Stretch linen in
hoop.
STITCHING; 1. Embroider your
designs over basting lines using
stitches as suggested below, or any
other stitches desired. 2. For
decorative designs, use pulled
sipping fuel like a smaller tractor.
It’s simple. When the new Kubota M tractors hit
the dirt, they left a lot of other tractors behind.
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thread stitches, (a). 3. For outlines
in the design, use chain stitches
(b).
EDGES: Finish edges of
placemat in any of the following
ways. 1. Edge with buttonhole
stitches (cl. 2. Ravel edges of
placemats to create fringes. 3.
Turn under hem. Stitches.
FINISHING: 1. Remove basting
stitches. 2. Press placemats.
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