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Tatouage lignes et dotwork fleur de cactus, chaines et perles, by lys tattoo, cactus flower modern and graphic interpretation

 

Testing motifs for Jack's belt

Blackwork and cross stitch bookmarks

Polynesian, Maori, chest panel half sleeve, tattoo

Except it's just Jack ideas, as Jack is on another piece of linen. More motifs :-)

floral blackwork (all hand poked stipple shading) completed! about 12+ hours in at this point...on to the geometric color background in-between! (Clark Kent, Slave to the Needle, Ballard WA)

Blackworked elizabethan coif. Black silk on linen ground. Nearly there.

Linen embroidered with silk thread.

English 1580-1620

 

"'Blackwork' or monochrome silk embroidery on white linen was a fashionable embellishment for dress in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The repeating pattern on this panel displays flora typical of embroideries of the period: honeysuckle, pansies, borage and grapes."

Only a few days to finish. Blogged here.

Stitched with variegated Caron Widflowers thread, Painted Desert, for a birthday card.

Pattern from New Stitches No 197 magazine, counted stitch border added.

Framed in picnic for display here.

I made this for my hippo loving friend years ago.

Embroidered collar started 7 years ago. Got about halfway done and stopped. Picking it up again now.

stitched in DMC stranded cotton on 28ct jazlyn evenweave. the chart for this design and other animals is available at www.cottonseason.etsy.com

My blackwork that I started ages ago - and as I posted a picture when I started I can see just how long it took me! About 2 years as I'm not sure how long it had been when I took the first pic.

 

Many thanks to Tam's Creations for the pattern: www.tamscreations.com/Pages/Freebies.aspx

 

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stitched on 28ct antique white jobelan fabric with dmc colour variations thread, the chart for this design can be found at www.cottonseason.etsy.com along with many more animal patterns

The little blackwork fox, rear leg almost done. Chest on its way, with a floral / leaves design (all designs courtesy of Kim Brody Salazar).

Photographed using the Halina Vision XF, and Kodak Ultramax 400 film.

 

Taken in Croydon, Victoria, Australia.

A tribute to www.rathergood.com/peniston . Rather frighteningly, recipient promises to hang it in their dining room - I expected them to hide it in a toilet somewhere :D

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