This kit is designed to be worked with the instructions contained in Japanese Motifs in Stumpwork & Goldwork (Page 122)
Three shades of crimson have been used to embroider the detached petals of the peony flower and bud. This design also features a bumble bee, with detached gauzy wings and velvety striped abdomen, and a tiny spider in a glistening web – all worked with a variety of silk and metallic threads, organza and beads, using stumpwork and surface embroidery techniques.
This stumpwork embroidery kit contains all materials required to work this project.
Kit Contents
- Ivory Duchess satin or Vintage kimono silk, quilter's muslin, tracing paper, organza, organdie, paper-backed fusible web, beads and coloured wires.
- Threads – Soie d'Alger silks (6 whole skeins), assorted silk, cotton, rayon, nylon and metallic threads.
Equipment Required
- 10 inch embroidery hoop, slate frame or stretcher bars
- 6 inch or 5 inch embroidery hoop
- Two 4 inch embroidery hoops
- Needles:
- Crewel/Embroidery sizes 9 and 10
- Straw/Milliners size 9
- Sharps sizes 11 and 12
- Sharp Yarn Darners sizes 14 - 18
- Small sharp-pointed embroidery scissors and paper scissors
- Fine blunt-nosed tweezers (to shape wire)
- Small wire cutters or old scissors (to cut wire)
