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I did this embroidery ages ago but only washed the stabiliser off last night (so that was the first time I could see if it turned out OK). Relieved it turned out well! If you look at the close-up you can see there are a few places where my “doing in the ends” came through to the good side by mistake, but I’m not too bothered by that.

The fabric is a viscose/cotton mix bought from Cloth House, the thread is silk floss from Pipers Silks, and the embroidery pattern is lace stitch from the RSN Stitchbank.

clothhouse.com/
pipers-silks.com/floss-silk/li
rsnstitchbank.org/stitch/lace-

I call this “fake blackwork” because the stitch pattern is a blackwork pattern but I’ve done it on a grid that curves around the neckline, whereas (as far as I know) real blackwork is always done on a strictly
square grid. I made the curved grid in Inkscape using two techniques: repeated “inset” of the neckline path for the curved lines, and then “pattern along path” using a repeated straight line segment for the spokes. I printed the grid onto soluble stabiliser and then stitched over it.

A cut-out front bodice piece for a tunic top, in a shiny violet-purple fabric. A pattern resembling stylised flowers and lozenges has been embroidered in thin silvery-grey silk thread in a wide curve around the neckline.
A close-up of the previous stitching, showing that the pattern is made up from many small double-running stitches. In a few places there are small accidental prick-stitches in places that shouldn’t be stitched, but you’d have to look pretty hard to spot them.
#Embroidery#BlackWork#BlackWorkEmbroidery
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