:D I've ordered a couple of books on whitework technique so want to incorporate various elements of that in my design... the design isn't stand-alone, it's to go across the back of a dress. I should try take a photo of that too really before I start!
It's embroidery done traditionally in white thread on white cloth. The actual embroidered bits are done in a combination of raised work and drawn thread work, which means most of the design is made from different textures that give different tonal values. There is a sampler here (http://www.needlenthread.com/2009/02/whitework-techniques-embroidery-sampler.html) that kinda illustrates it fairly well, you can see some areas are made darker by using threads to bunch the fabric into little holes or by drawing threads out of the fabric and binding the remaining threads into patterns. You can see it in this Victorian piece (http://www.oldsacramentolivinghistory.com/museum/Virtual%20Museum/Clothing,%20Victorian%20and%20Civil%20War/slides/Bonnet%20Back,%20Whitework%20on%20Muslin.html) too. There are lots of varieties of whitework, that use different quantities of filled-in style and drawn-out areas.
Of course, I'm being difficult and doing "whitework" using matching dark green threads on a dark green dress ;)
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Date: 2011-08-03 12:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-08-03 05:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-08-03 04:38 pm (UTC)but the top one with words in the empty space like beetle
in leafy gothic script?
books? think i missed a post
like th big on the top one better
a monogram on the bug back
imagine finding a bug with your initials on its back...
creepy
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Date: 2011-08-03 05:05 pm (UTC)I've ordered a couple of books on whitework technique so want to incorporate various elements of that in my design... the design isn't stand-alone, it's to go across the back of a dress.
I should try take a photo of that too really before I start!
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Date: 2011-08-03 05:12 pm (UTC)think the 2nd design could be a gold broach too
one of my favorite artists that do white work occasionally is here
"http://blogdelanine.blogspot.com/"
you might have to go back a page or two
i love what she did to her fingernails
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Date: 2011-08-03 05:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-08-04 06:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-08-04 02:20 pm (UTC)There is a sampler here (http://www.needlenthread.com/2009/02/whitework-techniques-embroidery-sampler.html) that kinda illustrates it fairly well, you can see some areas are made darker by using threads to bunch the fabric into little holes or by drawing threads out of the fabric and binding the remaining threads into patterns. You can see it in this Victorian piece (http://www.oldsacramentolivinghistory.com/museum/Virtual%20Museum/Clothing,%20Victorian%20and%20Civil%20War/slides/Bonnet%20Back,%20Whitework%20on%20Muslin.html) too. There are lots of varieties of whitework, that use different quantities of filled-in style and drawn-out areas.
Of course, I'm being difficult and doing "whitework" using matching dark green threads on a dark green dress ;)