Tag: armenian embroidery
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Aintab Embroidery in Review
On May 11th, I finished my first Aintab embroidery piece. I worked on this project nearly daily for almost exactly six months, and had spent much longer than that planning and picking up the skills I would need to execute it successfully. To say this has been a long time coming is a massive understatement.…
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Very Belated 2024 Plans
This post is well overdue. I’ve been so busy working on projects that I haven’t set any time aside to write and several of my 2024 plans have already come to pass. I’m slowly whittling down my WIP list and my top priority for the past few months has been my Aintab embroidery piece. I’m…
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Things Go Wrong
When I talk about lace with people who aren’t crafters, one of the most common comments I get is that it looks difficult and that I must be talented. I understand this is supposed to be a compliment, but I fundamentally disagree with the premise on both fronts. First, Armenian needlelace is quite forgiving as…
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A Burst of Creativity
A CRLG member recently explained to me that state fair categories are use it or lose it – if a certain category has no entries for three consecutive years, it gets removed. She encouraged me to enter multiple items next year, and to expand into categories for items I haven’t tried before. This makes sense…
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Aintab Embroidery Musings
To say I’m fascinated by drawn thread embroidery is an understatement. I love lace in general, but there’s something extra mesmerizing about geometric open work designs. I first read about Aintab (sometimes written as Ayntab) embroidery in Alice Odian Kasparian’s book Armenian Needlelace and Embroidery, which has beautiful pictures of drawn thread linens, some unfinished.…
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The Secrets of Marash Embroidery – Book Review
I started exploring Marash embroidery in September of 2020. Instead of focusing on my classes, I spent many Zoom lectures trying to understand exactly how the different layers of stitching fit together. Marash embroidery looks intimidating, but at its core it’s interlaced herringbone stitch and learning a few rules about stitching order makes everything click…
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