Use it for your technique of choice – crewel, long and short stitch, goldwork – your call. I’d love to see what you make from it!
In China, the bat is a symbol of good luck. Red bats are a symbol of vast fortunes. You will often find these creatures flying around the background on Dragon Robes, whether embroidered or woven. Cute little creatures in varying styles, this style with its big ears reminded me of a little tabby cat I once lived with. When in color, the upper wings are often red, the lower white, the head red with white eyes.
Bat
The actual line pattern is about 6 inches wide by 2.5 inches tall. Feel free to use a photocopier to enlarge or shrink it to a preferred size!
Note: Elmows are distributed as a pdf file. If you don’t have it on your computer, you can get the free Adobe PDF Reader here. This creates a nice clean chart or pattern that you can print on your printer (and size up or down using a copy machine, or even work from the monitor, if you want.
This is lovely. I would love to see one of these in person and up close one day. Barring that, I’d like to see more of this one!
http://ornamentedbeing.tumblr.com/post/7377450096
There are several other photos of different types of sample books here, including another 18th century embroidery sample book: http://trouvais.com/2009/07/13/textiles-archives/
My designs (specifically the geometric patterns in the Home section of the online catalog, and the Esther Della sampler) were picked up by Hoffman Distributing. So this is going to be short today as I frantically package chartpacks to send off to their warehouse!
Yay! I have a distributor! This will make it much easier for shopowners to get my designs. I’m very excited (can you tell?)
And since I’m frantically stuffing charts in bags, no more of a post today. Sorry. I’ll be back Monday with another treasure link for you!
Elmow #7 is a tile design with a bit of a floral motif. There’s now a “View Cart” button so you can purchase multiple Elmows if you’ve missed last week’s! Just pop back to the Elmows you want and add them to the cart as well!
e-LMOW #7 – Biscornu or Tile
Chart size: 42 X 42 count – chart is a pdf file, and prints on one 8 1/2 X 11 sheet of paper, in an easy-to read 9 squares to the inch.
On 14 count fabric, it stitches up to 3 inches square.
Note: Elmows are distributed as a pdf file. If you don’t have it on your computer, you can get the free Adobe PDF Reader here. This creates a nice clean chart or design that you can print on your printer, or even work from the monitor, if you want.
This link was sent to me by a friend who thinks it’s a style I’d do well. (I have to agree… I’ve been eying it ever since I took a workshop with Aisha Ali a few years ago… but time hasn’t presented itself to learn!) This is a very pretty and elegant example, and worthy of the classification of “treasure”.
