I want to try as many Elizabethan stitches as possible on my Historical Sampler. (I don’t know if I’ll end up being able to do them all, In fact, I very much doubt it! :-)

I thought I’d list out all the Elizabethan stitches I know of, and show links in my blog to where I’ve used them in my sampler.

I’ll add in a link to the appropriate blog post/s as I use each stitch.

RSS feeders will get an update each time I re-publish. I hope that’s not too annoying.

I could just list the stitches and tick them off as I go, but I thought pointing more directly to useful tidbits I’ve come across on each stitch would be helpful. This project is going to end up with an awful lot of entries, and I’m going to get lost in what I’ve written and forget what I’ve discovered.

My sources for the stitches are

• “Elizabethan Embroidery” by George Wingfield Digby

(source : http://www.grimfells.net/pubs/Elizabethan_Embroidery.pdf)

• “Guide to English Embroidery in the Victoria and Albert Museum” by Patricia Wardle

(source : http://www.grimfells.net/pubs/Elizabethan_Embroidery.pdf)

• “The Art of Elizabethan Embroidery” by Jane Zimmerman
• The Plimouth Embroiderer’s Diary

http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/

• “Three Raised Stitches in Elizabethan Embroideries” by Sabrina de la Bere

http://www.bayrose.org/AandS/handouts/Raised_Stitches.pdf

• "16th Century Samplers" by Carol Hanson/Caryl de Trecesson

http://www.dragonbear.com/samplers.html

• “Embroidery Stitches found in Period” by Mistress Octavia Jenon de Treves, OP and added to by Mistress Catherine Lorraine, OL OP.

http://casbal.100webspace.net/classes/Embroidery_Stitches_found_in_Period.pdf

from which I’ve used

Table 1 : A Pictorial History of Embroidery by Marie Schuette & Sigrid Muller-Christensen

Table 6 - English Medieval Embroidery by A. G. I. Christie

Table 7 - Batsford Book of Canvas Work by Mary Rhodes

Tables 3 and 4 are repeats of the Digby and Wardle lists that appear in the Grimfells PDF with two exceptions. Two extra stitches are listed under Wardle in the Treves document. Their source is listed as Wardle (Treves).

The opposite situation occurs with another Wardle stitch between the two lists.

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I’ve left out the

canvas stitches, blackwork, whitework, applique, beading, pattern darning, eyelets and cord stitch, hemming stitches,

from my list. (and my project)

I’ve linked to entries that provide some tidbit of information about a stitch, not all of the entries that mention the stitch in passing