{"id":1413,"date":"2010-07-09T09:02:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T08:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2015-01-19T17:48:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T17:48:12","slug":"tudor-and-stuart-goldwork-masterclass-the-first-two-goldwork-stitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/09\/tudor-and-stuart-goldwork-masterclass-the-first-two-goldwork-stitches\/","title":{"rendered":"Tudor and Stuart Goldwork Masterclass \u2013 the first two Goldwork Stitches"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve not come near finishing the silk work on the\u00a0 Spot Sampler, so I am going to do some practising first. The fabric is a heavy plain weave, about 16 threads to the inch. Compared with the linen for the actual piece it is almost like binca! I chose it to give me some chance to see what I was doing and to count the threads if it proved necessary for the stitches. It wasn’t really for the first two, but I did so anyway!<\/p>\n

\"Reverse<\/a>

Reverse Chain Stitch<\/p><\/div>\n

Reverse Chain Stitches<\/strong><\/p>\n

This produces, to all appearances, simple chain stitch, but it doesn’t involve the “scooping” motion used when working in the hand and seems somewhat easier to control.<\/p>\n

I’ve done it both over three and over two threads.<\/p>\n

\"Reverse<\/a>

Reverse Twisted Chain Stitch<\/p><\/div>\n

Reverse Twisted Chain Stitch<\/strong>
\nAgain, the resulting appearance is of simple twisted chain but the stitch is worked backwards, I think this reduces the chances for the gold thread to snag on itself, which certainly helps.<\/p>\n

As shown in the original diagram, it is worked over a grid in effect, of two threads by two.\u00a0 After doing that fairly easily I decided to play a bit.<\/p>\n

So I worked several variants, over two by four, two by one, one by one, and two by two.<\/p>\n

The one by one was quite a challenge, but I am pleased that I have an impression of the changes in appearance effected by the different stitches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve not come near finishing the silk work on the\u00a0 Spot Sampler, so I am going to do some practising first. The fabric is a heavy plain weave, about 16 threads to the inch. Compared with the linen for the actual piece it is almost like binca! I chose it to give me some chance… Continue Reading Tudor and Stuart Goldwork Masterclass \u2013 the first two Goldwork Stitches<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,45],"tags":[158,148,15,46],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goldwork","category-tudor-and-stuart-gold-masterclass","tag-goldwork","tag-learning-stitches","tag-online-university","tag-tudor-and-stuart-goldwork-masterclass","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}