Lovely Whitework

I find whitework fascinating. It's a broad term that includes both counted thread work and surface embroidery techniques and covers many different types of embroidery worked mainly with white thread on white fabric.

If you enjoy seeing the whitework that other embroiderers are doing, below are some links that I have happily visited - more than once! 

1. Yolande has stitched a beautiful English Whitework band sampler designed by Darlene O'Steen. There are lots of photos and there is an English translation included on her blog Fils et Aiguilles une Passion. Click here to visit Yolande's blog and see the sampler.

2. At the beginning of the Covid pandemic, Luzine Happel came up with the idea of creating a joint Schwalm sampler and she proposed the idea on her blog. The result was that 74 embroiderers from 14 nations contributed 91 Schwalm embroideries, all stitched during Covid. These embroideries have been expertly combined into an extraordinary hanging. There are photos of the final piece and meticulous details of what went into making it on Luzine's blog here. There is an option for translating between German and English on the home page of the blog.

3. The Gary Parr interview on Fiber Talk Stitch Hour with Tricia Wilson Nguyen on 16th century whitework has some very interesting snippets. It's a 90 minute video and there are some technical problems, but there's much to glean from the details Tricia unearthed while studying old whitework samplers. The link will take you to the YouTube video here.

4. Mary Corbett alerted me to Janna Jackuszewska's cutwork patterns in her blog post here on Needle 'N Thread. Joanna is from from Poland and conveniently makes her cutwork patterns and copies of her magazines Haft Richelieu available for us in her Etsy shop KIZI MIZI Studio.  Visit Joanna's shop here.

Have fun browsing all this beautiful whitework. 

And happy stitching too!