Category archives: Your Gallery

A perfect pleasure to view in many ways.

Feuille's blog is a delight to browse, its wonderful colours and forms are so pleasant to behold.

Thank you Feuille for sharing this with us

Dodile of Aux Dentelles Dodile has posted a free pattern on Ravelry of her Victory Shawl designed for Tricotin, where you can also find it as a free pattern.

On Ravelry you can find the pattern in French and English here.

Dodile has designed and knitted the Victory Shawl in Dark Peach (shade 1201) a shade dyed with madder root.

I thought you would like to see what Jane Dew and the Staircase Stitchers have been doing with Renaissance Dyeing's naturally dyed crewel wool.

I have made the images as large as possible so you can have a good look. The work is truly inspiring. Do feel free to leave your comments below and I will pass them on to Jane and the Staircase Stitchers.

This is view from the bottom of the curtain stretched on the frame. The hills at the bottom and the main tree trunks are stitched straight on to the curtain fabric while it is ...

For those of you interested in Mediaeval Embroidery, here is an inspiring challenge.

The Something to Keep you Warm Embroidery Challenge II

It is the daughter of the Walling Hanging Challenge being completed by Racaire and Anya.

There are some very interesting links on these sites, have a look around.

The challenge will run from September 2007 - September 2008.

In their own words:

"This time around we decided on a more ahem useful theme for the project! Embroidered items can include hats, gloves, blankets, stockings, cloaks, anything that you use to keep you warm. These and the embroidery on them ...

Two more wonderful samplers from the creative needle of Irene Dunn, here described in her own words.

"The sampler which I made for Marguerite and Malcolm I think is rather similar to the one I made for you, which can be viewed in the gallery on the main Renaissance web-site. Many of the patterns are similar but the wording comes from COLBY Averil-Samplers (published in the 1960's)"

"The unframed sampler I am very pleased with. It is a 'band sampler', very popular in the 16-17th centuries. Called a band sampler as the patterns are worked across.

The needlewoman would ...

What a strange world we live in where people not only still have the medieval skills but can share it with the whole world at the same time. Anna and her friend Anya have set each other the challenge of completing a medieval embroidery in a year and a day. Anna chose to make hers in naturally dyed crewel wool in keeping with the embroidery she is working on.

You can watch this beautiful embroidery grow at Racaire's blog .

While at the Harrogate Knitting and Stitching Show, We were visited by one of this year's course participants, Christine Holman. She brought with her a beautiful blanket that she had woven with the Renaissance fine 2/24 wool she had dyed on the course with varying depths of indigo.

Here it is on her loom, she tied up 1300 ends and not one broke during the weaving process.

One feel of this wonderful piece of weaving spurred fellow weavers to buy wool for their own projects. Thank you Christine, for sharing this with us all, also for the help ...

This is the tester bed in Staircase House, Stockport. There are over 50 volunteer stitchers under the expert eye of Jane Dew busily creating bed-curtains, cushions, samplers and much more, to decorate the bed and this wonderfully restored house.

They are very much enjoying using Renaissance wool and each new parcel from our dye house is greeted with whoops of delight!

You will be able to meet Jane and some of the Stitchers when they bring their work to the Harrogate Knitting and Stitching Show at the end of November.

We will be there too of course! See you then.

Towards the end of last year we had several enquiries from people seeking an alternative thread to DMC Medici, which had ceased to be available. L'associazione Amici Del Ricamo Bandera di Chieri Torino was one of these and here are pictures of their first work produced with Renaissance Dyeing naturally dyed crewel wool.

It has been made by Anna Ghigo Merlassion the president of the Association.

L'associazione Amici Del Ricamo Bandera di Chieri was founded on September 1999 in order to safeguard and promote the traditional Piedmontese embroidery handicraft which was used to decorate the local cloth, Bandera ...