Thank you for joining EGA, Susan! Welcome to the family.

I see a study in my future! (I ❤ rabbit holes) … what are the differences between those stitches and Klosterstitch and Bokhara couching? Inquiring minds and all that!

This has to be unimaginably hard for you to see it again. The Thing That Walks Like A Man is a raving lunatic and **MUST** be stopped!

**hugs**

Thank you Susan–I will amplify the hugs and send them to Ukraine. Monique

Hello Susan–I am not a textile historian–I was a sound recordings archivist of Hispanic folk music and Indigenous, pueblos and tribes ,of the Southwest.
I will try to answer your question. The conventional wisdom is that they are both the same under different names. They are of the couched family of stitches. The stitch you asked about is…[Read more]

Thanks! I wish I had known you’d replied!

Diana, welcome! I’m so excited that you are into crewel. There s a crewel/surface embroidery affinity group that meets on zoom the second Sunday of every month on zoom. . If you would like an invitation to the meeting, please send an email to marketing@egausa.org. We are all levels of ability from beginner to certified teachers. I hope we’ll see…[Read more]

Hi Wendy! Thanks for the info. It would be nice to meet some fellow stitchers.

Historic Embroidery nerds unite!!

:-))))))))))))))))))))))))))) Monique

I’m new enough here (and still learning how things work), but I have wondered how many Historic Embroidery folks were here.

Suz

Suz–stick around EGA –Fiber Arts publishes fantastic articles. I am not a textile historian–I was an archivist at the U of NM. Monique

Oh, excellent! Archivists are awesome folks!!

Indian Whitework Embroidery is modernly called Chikankari, which is the name that the Persians gave the Indigenous peoples whitework embroidery. Would it surprise you to know that the whitework embroidery of India was known to Alexander the Great?, or the Romans and Egyptians? It was described by 3rd century BCE Greek Diplomat Megasthenes and…[Read more]