#metallic threads

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Tom Lundberg, Fire Starter Badge, 1987, acrylic paint on Masonite, pine, metal and wool with cotton, silk and metallic threads, 19 1⁄2 × 21 5⁄8 × 2 7⁄8 in. (49.5 × 54.9 × 7.3 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Lloyd E. Herman, Director Emeritus, Renwick Gallery, 2006.40.3

[tanuki-kimono]

Joyful antique summer outfit, featuring a very pop kimono (that fuschia!) with lovely urushi (metallic threads) swimming fishes, paired with a dynamic jumping koi carp obi

[ksuew]

3/27/21 secondary work in progress. I recently had a chat with @dobutsu-crossing101 about metallic thread ideas. I’ve been wanting to try metallic threads on a hummingbird so I think I’ll start a secondary WIP for the 30-40 minutes I’m now spending every day sitting in my car waiting to pick my youngest up at school. I’m going to start with metallic threads on the border, to see how awful it is (I hear metallic threads are hard to stitch with). Then I’ll also use metallics for the 2 hummingbirds but will probably tweak the colors a bit. Fingers crossed.

[fashionbooksmilano]

Resplendent Dress from Southeastern Europe

A History in Layers

Elizabeth Wayland Barber

Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles 2013, 275 pages, ISBN  978-0984755035 

euro 35,00 n/a

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In the past, girls from rural southeastern Europe spent their childhoods weaving, sewing, and embroidering festive dress so that upon reaching puberty they could join the Sunday afternoon village dances garbed in resplendent attire. These extremely colorful and intensely worked garments were often adorned with embroidery, lace, metallic threads, coins, sequins, beads, and, perhaps most importantly, fringe, a symbolic marker of fertility. Over time new forms of dress were added so that by 1900, a southeastern European village woman’s apparel consisted of millennia of layered history. Even today this dress continues to be worn on festive occasions and by older people in rural areas.                      Lavishly illustrated, Resplendent Dress from Southeastern Europe features fifty stunning nineteenth- through twentieth-century ensembles from Macedonia, Croatia, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Serbia, Hungary, the Slovak Republic, the Czech Republic, Montenegro, and Romania―nearly all from the Fowler’s excellent collection―plus one hundred individual items including aprons, vests, jackets, and robes. These fascinating ensembles are displayed in an immersive environment that evokes the distinctive mountain landscape in which villagers gathered in their finery.

30/04/20

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[craftinggeek]

Metallic Threads: Thread Testing & Opinion Master Blog

Metallic Threads: Thread Testing & Opinion Master Blog

Original blog post was written by @emzolv on July 29, 2020 and was reposted to this blog with permission. Hey everyone! Okay so this has been a long time in the making, so I apologise profusely for the delay that this has taken. I could sit here and wax lyrical with excuses but frankly – this is very overdue and well, I’m here to rectify that! The original plan was to create a blog featuring all…

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[johnthestitcher]

Update on Thread Disaster

Yesterday I received a box in the mail with a replacement cone of the silver metallic thread - let us hope there are no defects in it! LOL!

I was also given three thread samples; a metallic/rayon blend called ‘Entice’, and two lamé braids in two different sizes. All of these threads are available from Rainbow Gallery.

[the-fashion-dish]

Marchesa Spring 2017 RTW

[laughteristhemusicoftheworld]

Cross stitch question.

I'm using metallic dmc thread for my mum and dad's silver anniversary present and I'm struggling with it as the strands keep separating into individual strands and then they keep splitting so I end up having to try and thread about 5 little ends into the needle constantly not to mention it's very scratchy so it's not as smooth to sew with. Is there anyway l can make the thread smoother like normal thread or to stop it splitting so much.