Category Archives: Beading
#34: Beaded Baroness’s Favour
This is my first attempt at beaded embroidery – stringing the beads and then couching them down with cotton thread. This certainly was a learning curve. It is quite challenging deciding which direction to lay the beads, and to get the beads to lie flat without bumping up. Much unpicking and persistance was involved. I …
#16: Forepart and Sleeves
My first Elizabethan garb – including corset, bum roll, partlet, farthingale, ruffs and hat. Annoyingly, I made the sleeves too short – fixing them is somewhere on my “to do” list. The forepart and sleeves were of delustered satin. The gown, blue veveteen. The golden “petal” shapes on the forepart and sleeves were embroidered using …
Needleworkes 