Documentation: Global Schwalm Sampler

When the Global Schwalm Sampler goes on tour – the first agreements are already in progress – the viewer should be given the opportunity to obtain background information. Therefore, I have created a detailed bilingual English-German report that is laminated and bound to accompany the cloth.

An overall picture with background lighting gives an initial view of the impressive project, and a numbered graph allows the viewer to more easily find the individual embroideries.

A short history of the Global Schwalm Sampler follows

as well as a list of the number of embroiderers and the submitted contributions of the respective nations.

After this brief introduction, there are 142 pages where one can see and read details of the individual contributions.

All the detailed images have been professionally edited. And the text, the same as the text originally posted on my website, has been enriched by many more detailed images of the finished sampler.

On the last two pages there is a short explanation of how the individual embroideries were combined to create a large sampler.

The detailed images of the embroidery are excellent after being professionally processed. You can clearly see every stitch.

I have therefore decided to make this publication accessible to all interested embroiderers! This book opens up a treasure trove of ideas that have been put into practice and embroideries that have come to fruition. The effect of individual filling patterns in different motifs can be compared wonderfully.

A quality book consisting of a total of 146 pages with 485 images must have a price. The printed version costs €39 (including 7% sales tax, so it is €36.45 outside the EU). But there is also a downloadable version that consists of, due to the file size, a total of 7 PDF documents. It can be purchased for €20 (including 7% sales tax, so it is €18.69 outside the EU).

The weight is more than 500 g, so the shipping costs are also higher – within the EU they are €7.49 without a tracking number and €10 with a tracking number. Outside the EU the shipping is €9 without a tracking number and €11.35 with a tracking number.

All those involved in the Global Schwalm Sampler receive a special discount of 20% on the purchase price as an extra “thank you”.

Global Schwalm Sampler
documentation of a worldwide unique project
146 pages
485 images
text: English and German
plastic comb binding
item price: €39 (including 7% sales tax), €36.45 for customers outside the EU
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Global Schwalm Sampler
documentation of a worldwide unique project
146 pages
485 images
text: English and German
7 PDF documents with 80053 KB file size in all
item price: €20 (including 7% sales tax), €18.69 for customers outside the EU
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Ricamo d’Assia – Lezione n. 1

Just for once this blog post is earmarked for my Italian readers.

Ora finalmente c’è un manuale che avvia al ricamo d’Assia anche in lingua italiana.
Vi prego di condividere questa buona notizia con le altre appassionate di ricamo, se vi fa piacere.

Il ricamo d’Assia combina molte tecniche diverse e non tutte possono essere apprese contemporaneamente. Se vi interessate al ricamo d’Assia, potete appassionarvi soltanto eseguendo i lavori accuratamente passo dopo passo. Questo è possibile con l’ausilio dei miei manuali che contengono descrizioni molto dettagliate.

Il ricamo d’Assia è caratterizzato da tre diversi tipi di sfilato:
• semplice: qui ogni quarto filo viene sfilato in una sola direzione
• Limet (rete): qui ogni quarto filo viene sfilato in entrambe le direzioni
• traforo: qui si lasciano e si sfilano coppie di fili in entrambe le direzioni, alternativamente.

Successivamente alla sfilatura, l’interno dei motivi si ricama con una vasta scelta di punti di riempimento, creando effetti sempre diversi.

Nella dispensa della prima lezione, insegno i primi, semplici fondi di riempimento. Tuttavia, come si vede dalle immagini, già soltanto da questi pochi punti si possono comporre moltissime alternative. Nove motivi sono descritti in grande dettaglio; inoltre, propongo molti suggerimenti per modificare e personalizzare i motivi.

Il ricamo d’Assia si compone di solo nove punti base diversi, da cui si sviluppa l’infinita varietà di motivi di riempimento superficiale. La lezione n. 1 affronta tre di questi punti base: punto nido d’ape, punto ondulato e barrette a punto piatto.

La lezione n. 1 spiega in modo molto approfondito gli elementi di base in 9 passaggi:

1. Trasferimento del disegno
2. Preparazione del filo da ricamo
3. Punto annodato
4. Ventaglietti a punto festone
5. Punto catenella
6. Sfilatura per realizzare un fondo a fili contati semplice
7. Punti di riempimento (fondi)
8. Lavaggio
9. Finitura

Il progetto prevede un motivo a cuore che può essere ritagliato o incorniciato come nella figura qui sotto, una volta completato il ricamo.

Si possono inoltre realizzare piccoli cuscini a forma di cuore o quadrati, e nastri ricamati.

Siete mancine? Nessun problema! Questa lezione è disponibile in due formati: per mancini o destrimani.

La lezione offre un altro vantaggio: se ti sei appassionata al ricamo d’Assia e desideri saperne di più, sono disponibili altre lezioni (finora purtroppo solo in tedesco e inglese).

Poiché il successo dipende in gran parte dall’utilizzo dei materiali giusti, consiglio di ordinare il kit materiale n. 1 insieme alla lezione n. 1.


Ricamo d’Assia
Lezione n. 1
Cuori di Happel
53 pagine
più di 140 foto
Testo: italiano
Rilegatura ad anelli
25,00 €
acquista

Materiale del kit n. 1

Per apprendere con successo il ricamo d’Assia, è importante utilizzare i materiali giusti. Il kit n. 1 contiene tutti i materiali necessari per la lezione n. 1 e la lezione n. 3, nonché un campione del lino più fine suggerito per la lezione n. 2 da testare.

Nel pacchetto n. 1 troverai:
Per la lezione n. 1
● Lino – lino Weddigen 13,5 fili / cm circa 20 cm x 90 cm (per lezione n. 1)
● Penna decalcabile DEKA
● Carta trasparente per ricalcare il disegno
● Nastro adesivo rimovibile
● Ago per ricamo con punta n. 24 (chenille)
● Ago per ricamo con punta n. 26 (chenille)
● Ago per ricamo senza punta n. 26 (per punto croce)
● Fili da ricamo a 4 capi ritorti – coton a broder – n. 16, 20 e 25 – una matassina di ciascuna grossezza (per la lezione n. 1)
Per la lezione n. 2
● Lino – lino Weddigen 16 fili / cm circa 20 cm x 20 cm (da provare)
Per la lezione n. 3
● Lino – lino Weddigen 13,5 fili / cm circa 20 cm x 90 cm
● Fili da ricamo a 4 capi ritorti – coton a broder – n. 16, 20 e 30 – una matassina di ciascuna grossezza
● Detersivo in polvere


Materiale del kit n. 1
Lino
Aghi da ricamo
Filo da ricamo a quattro capi ritorti
vari accessori
€ 35,00
al negozio

Nota: Quando effettuerete l’ordine verrete guidati nel sito solo in tedesco o in inglese. Spero non sia un problema. Se lo preferite potrete semplicemente ordinare via e-mail. Fornite il vostro indirizzo completo. Vi informerò quindi delle spese di spedizione e invierò una fattura PayPal direttamente. L’ordine sarà spedito alla ricezione del pagamento.

Especially for Left-Hander

More and more left-handed people want to learn Schwalm whitework. So I have decided to increase my service in this respect. Perhaps you have already noticed the special instructions for left-handed people in my latest blog posts regarding filling patterns. In future articles I will continue to include left-handed instructions using the same format as seen in Filling Pattern 543 and Filling Pattern 544.

During my many years of teaching, I often cooperated with left-handers, and so I was able to gain different perspectives. Some of them told me that when they were young they had to learn to embroider using the right hand. But even with a lot of practice stitching with the right hand, using the right hand will never feel 100 percent natural to the left-hander. Stitching will be a strain and less enjoyable for the left-hander forced to conform to right-handed methods.

Others suggested to turn the instruction books upside down to get the correct view of the images, but this is not true for all stitches. Moreover, the accompanying text is not readable in this position.

For some techniques like Cross stitch, where one only needs to learn one stitch, it is conceivably possible for the left-hander to work without special instructions.

But Schwalm whitework is made special by the multitude of different stitches used in one project. And this makes learning it difficult for all, but left-handers are especially overwhelmed without exact instructions.

Years ago, at the request of and in cooperation with a young lady, I decided to publish a left-hander edition of my basic book. The left-hander edition was totally revised with new text and pictures. The young lady worked step-by-step using my instructions and did not experience any difficulties. Later translations to English and French followed. With the help of Mary Corbet´s website, I found embroiderers to test my English publication. They also did not have difficulties following my instructions, but they found the project much too elaborate for a beginner. It is, and will continue to be, a good reference book for advanced embroiderers.

Next I reworked – for the left-hander – my lesson #1 booklet. I received many thanks and compliments for “such great left-handed instructions” but also requests for more left-hander instructions. Now all my lesson booklets have an edition specifically written for the left-hander. They are available in my shop.

Details of the contents are found in the following blog posts:

New Lessons for Beginners – An Overview

Lesson #1 for lefthander – Happel Hearts

Lesson #2 for left hander – Tulip Wreath

Lesson #3 for left-hander – Openwork Circle Design Ornaments

Lesson #4 for left-hander – Needle-Weaving Band Sampler

Finally left-handers can also learn – without going against their natural inclinations – all the many facets of beautiful, diverse, and immensely interesting Schwalm whitework.

Do you know left-handed embroiderers? Please feel free to forward this good news to them.

Angels – Advent Calendar 2018

At first, I was not sure how this year’s Advent Calendar theme would be received. However, because many of my readers have asked for the corresponding outline patterns, I have learned that the interest is great. So I passed all my drawings on to a graphic designer, who then made the necessary graphics for me.

Now the patterns are put together in a new publication.
There are a few designs that were posted on my blog for which I have no rights. Therefore, the designs of the tea cloth posted on day 2 and the table runners posted on days 5, 12, and 19 are not included. But nine other pretty motifs take their places for a total of twenty-seven basic designs.

Since some of these are shown in several variations, you will find a total of seventy-one variations inside this booklet – included are the three wreath designs 9a, 9b, and 23.

To complete the collection, three charts of angel motifs for openwork were added.

All single designs are shown in the original size embroidered by me. The wreath designs are scaled down to a double-page format.

Because of the different formats, the publication is downloadable in two separate files.
Of course it is also possible to get this publication as a printed booklet for the same gross price (including 7% sales tax) plus shipping charges. This option is not shown in my online shop, so please email me with your request.

Angels
27 Basic Designs + 3 Charts
Advent Calendar 2018
line drawings in 71 variations
43 pages and 7 double-pages
3.68 MB + 4.81 MB file size
Text: English
€24.00 (includes 19% sales tax, so it is €20.17 for customers outside the EU)
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Schwalm Needle-Weaving Bands

Needle-weaving hems and needle-weaving bands are an inherent part of Schwalm whitework. And the huge number of different possibilities makes this special type of embroidery varied and interesting.

In Schwalm Whitework Lesson #4 – Needle-Weaving Band Sampler, I described how to work the different pattern categories in great detail. I have now collected into a new publication a huge number of band patterns with short explanations. This publication will enable embroiderers to find the perfect pattern for their taste and purpose.

The featured needle-weaving band patterns were found on pieces worked within the last two hundred years – 193 different patterns in all.

To both show the course of larger patterns and also enable a size comparison, all patterns are shown over a section of about seventy-two bundles.


The patterns are arranged into these categories:

  • A-patterns
  • one-piece block patterns
  • two-piece block patterns
  • two-piece block patterns with spiders
  • mirrored patterns
  • In addition, these patterns are also included:

  • divided patterns
  • needle-weaving with wrapped bundles patterns
  • pattern combinations
  • In each of the categories, the patterns are arranged according to their number of units. To make it easier to find a special pattern, the number of bundles of a single pattern segment is also provided for each pattern. (Of course all the special terms are clarified.)

    Some band patterns are easy to read, and others are more confusing. In an attempt to prevent errors from being made and to ease your work, I provide an additional service. For each band pattern, I have included the number of bundles for the individual bridges of the first unit; these are set in parentheses. Additionally, this pattern segment (the counted-out section) is marked with red lines at both ends.


    Tips for creating both new patterns and different samplers round out this very special and precious publication.

    Schwalm Needle-Weaving Bands

    Schwalm
    Needle-Weaving Bands
    collection of 193 different patterns

    67 pages
    more than 230 images
    plasic comb binding
    item price: €25
    (including 7% sales tax),
    €23.36 for customers outside the EU

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