I’m not completely happy with what I’m putting in my blog.

It’s turning out to have the contents  “this is what I experienced when doing this explicit motif”.

Which is all well and good, but I want to put some more theory and historical examples in as well.

I’m not putting my blog down – but I do want it to have more, to make the information content more valuable.

For example,

* examples of variations of a motif (eg, different types of borage during the 16th and 17th C)

* some theory from the old books, like Wace and Jourdain, (which I can legally repeat), and more references to more modern books on things like say…..padding with string? The old methods – not the ‘modern’ way of things, as much as I can.

I’m learning, and if you want to, you can learn along with me. (or tell me of my mistakes)

I think I’ll set up separate posts on various topics and add to them as I find more information/images, then flag that a post has been updated.

Posts about particular motifs (eg one all about borage, with different examples) I’ll use the label “Embroidery_Motif” as well as “Historical Embroidery Sampler”. Ditto “Embroidery_Technique”.

This is my sampler so far :

I have a lot of background information to catch up on if I want to research/write more thoroughly about each motif and method! *smile*