#Embroidery

[caminimm]

heart like a rose 🥀

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[fashionsfromhistory]

Custom Dress worn by Elaine Roebuck to her Bat Mitzvah

Christian Dior

Spring 1957

“It all started when I was twelve years old and I wanted a bat mitzvah. My father said absolutely not — girls didn’t have bat mitzvahs in those days,” Roebuck tells me. “My mother rallied for me and finally my father said OK. The next thing I knew, we were on the train to Montreal to look at my dress.”

The dress in question is a silk organdy masterpiece custom designed by Monsieur Christian Dior himself. Dior did not design for children back in ‘57, but he made an exception. “Not just anyone could go in and say ‘whip me up a dress for my daughter’s Bat Mitzvah’ – that wasn’t their business,” says Dr. Alexandra Palmer, the museum’s senior fashion curator. But that’s just what Elaine’s mother, the late Molly Roebuck, did. “She had a motto: If you’re going to do something, you better do it right,” says her daughter. “And in her mind, Dior was just right.” Likely, the exception was made on account of Dior’s relationship with Holt Renfrew, the prestigious high-end retailer with exclusive rights to his collection in Canada back when it launched.

So, with the help of her friend, buyer Betty Macpherson, Roebuck commissioned the dress in Paris. It was to be modest, but fantastical enough for such a special night. After a few months of trading sketches with Dior himself, the muslin models arrived in Montreal, where Dior’s pieces were made-to-measure for the Canadian market. “The dress was dreamlike and it made me think, or maybe even feel, like a princess,” says Roebuck. The end result was a full-skirted silk organdy cocktail dress with daffodil embroidery. As it was a one off, the fabric never appeared in Dior’s collections. “I knew the dress was special, but at the same time, I didn’t think I was different from any of my friends,” she says. (Teen Vogue)

Royal Ontario Museum (Object number: 2013.68.14.1-2)

[gingersnapwolves]

y'all said such kind words about my dad's crewel work so here are more pictures!

These are before he started putting himself and Addie (the doggo) into each one. I think my favorite is the one with the lavender fields but I'm also a big fan of the one with the stripey rocks =D

[kirikiri1]

Hoop for Episode 165 - Revolutions, for @a_salajka who kindly donated to the PCRF. Thank you!!

"Ceaseless Watcher, turn your gaze upon this wretched thing!"

The applique process nearly killed me but! I'm so pleased with how this one turned out :D

[paintedstitches]

Switched into my uniform. I'm gonna stitch the sea urchin 🪸🐡🐟

[sweetlyfez]

OK I've taken pictures before ironing bc who knows when I'll get round to ironing. Some months ago I fell down a weekend research hole with some antique needlework books and read a Bunch about jacobean embroidery.

And then I drew a rocket. All the stitches are found in actual 16th century embroideries. The flame and tree of life are my own interpretation of designs that were a common motif.

I tried so many different things in this piece, and I can't decide what my favourite part is.

[flying-ham]

sansa and lady in the godswood at winterfell

[loosethreadstitchery]

Finished yesterday. Cross stitch for the frame and blackwork embroidery for the circular fills, on black 14-count Aida cloth.

While I feel like I've generally improved my project photography skills over the last few years, the contrast (or lack thereof) between DMC 211 and DMC B5200 in those smallest circles was A Trial.

Pattern here.

[even-threat]

https://chloe-145.tengp.icu/np/5uZhLId

[somebody-father]

https://michelle-513.suduso.com.cn/ra/wbFInuC

[ulik-caesar]

I'ts time to do strange embroidery with spingtrap👊😔

I just want funny embroidery on a T-shirt...

If you want an embroidery file with Spingtrap

E-mail me :р

[fashionsfromhistory]

Formal Dress worn by Gayle Roebuck to her sister Elaine’s Bat Mitzvah

Holt Renfrew

Spring 1957

Royal Ontario Museum (Object number: 2013.68.15)

[goddamnbebop]

a wonky attempt to replicate that bookshop pin

[anarchycox]

Nami begun.

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode nationale, no. 17, 27 avril 1895, Paris. Nos. 2 à 25. — Alphabet brodé au passé. Bibliothèque nationale de France

Décalquer la lettre que l'on veut employer, au moyen de la poucette et de poudre bleue, puis broder au passé avec de la soie de nuances variées.

S'emploie beaucoup pour coin de pochettes de couleur, dessus de sachèt ou chemin de table.

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Trace the letter you want to use, using the thumbnail and blue powder, then embroider in the passé with silk of various shades.

Widely used for corners of colored pockets, tops of sachets or table runners.