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Embroidery World Tour
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Harpy eagles, dove orchid, Wounaan & Embera traditional tattoos, devil masks 😬.
Panama has one of the highest concentrations of species on the planet.
November: Sweden
Huck embroidery on Huck fabric(? 🤔) Monks cloth (? 🤔) or Aida (! 😁), in other words fabric with warp & weft threads that ‘float’. Huck embroidery weaves the thread through the fabric; no knots apparently and no stitches showing on the back. Vikings again! Northern lights again! Moose, lakes & forests, midsummer celebrations, reindeer, Sami duodji (traditional craft)
December: Ireland
Mountmellick: white on white embroidery; motifs based on plants found around Mountmellick: blackberries, dog roses, shamrocks, oak and fern.
Stitches: cable, stem, herringbone, coral, chain, couching, French knots, bullion knots, Cretan, feather, fishbone, fly, cable, satin, seed, long & short and…the tricky Mountmellick. The Book of Kells, shamrocks, leprechauns, Newgrange, Giants Causeway, celtic knots, hares, green.
2026
The challenge for 2026 will be...
More details to follow.