Gold Work

Gilt Twist Goldwork Threads for Hand Embroidery - Gilt Twist goldwork threads for hand embroidery great option for goldwork embroidery.

Hard string padding (goldwork) main image

Instead of gold lame, use hair.

Goldwork Letters Style 3: Cutwork with padding and Pearle Purl edging is here. The final step in our goldwork for lettering series aimed at those who have done some goldwork before and are ready to

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This is a technique that's been on my mind for a while - a Long While! I rarely see it on goldwork pieces being designed and embroidered today, but it shows up often on ecclesiastical embroidery pieces from the past. It's a type of raised goldwork. It looks like satin stitch (it's actually surfa

We have recently received a few inquiries about this beautiful dress and court train and while editing the photos, I decided to share them with the public in a blog post. This evening dress is of i…

Posts about Embroidery/Sewing Art written by Linda Lewis

On Monday, we chatted about setting up this slate frame for a goldwork embroidery project that I’m starting. The project is quite simple in concept, as you can see below. Once the frame was set up, I gathered supplies so I could jump to the fun part as quickly as possible! These are the supplies ...

So today at about 4:30pm, I finished all the embroidery work for my RSN Goldwork piece. Pretty excited to say the least, especially after the previous 2 modules took a bit of time after I got home! All I have to do now is mount it and send it off for accessment. Yippee! I thought I would share a couple notes on the "challenges" of this piece: - The intersections where the blossoms overlapped the stem were especially challenging because it meant that the cutwork needed to meet the pearl purl…