Schwalm Band – Outline Designs

I recently embroidered a long band border with traditional Schwalm motifs.

Because I believe that such a project will be of great interest, I would like to share it with you. Here comes the design first. In later blog posts I will walk you through the entire project.

This outline design can be used very flexibly.

It actually consists of 5 separate sections of different heights, which can be placed on top of each other as required or separated into many smaller sections – this creates more than 20 different outline patterns. They can be used as individual patterns or combined as desired.

You can place all the sections together in the order of the printed sheets and at their full length, or you can shorten the band pattern section by section to achieve the desired length.
You can also combine the sections in a different order or mirror them.

The template sheets offer unimagined possibilities – give it a try!

The original design was based on a 16 cm wide band.

I gave up my initial plan to embroider on industrially woven striped linen. Therefore it was also possible to make the band wider than 16 cm. The patterns were expanded to 18 cm wide. This made my embroidery 165 cm long.

So that you too can embroider a project with these outline patterns, I offer them for purchase. The document contains 35 reduced size design suggestions on three pages, and then the 5 original size design sections – both 16cm and 18cm wide.

You can either download this document

Schwalm Band
with traditional motifs
line drawings
22 pages
Text: English
7.51 MB file size
€19
(incl. 7% sales tax)
(€17,76 for customers outside the EU.)
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or order as a print version.

In the print version, the line drawings are printed on high-quality tracing paper. This makes putting the sections together very easy.

Schwalm Band
with traditional motifs
line drawings
22 pages
Text: English
€25
(incl. 7% sales tax)
(€ 23,36for customers outside the EU.)
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Advent Calendar 2023 – Nativity Scene

Advent Calendar 2023 – Nativity Scene

After a few years’ break, I would like to present an Advent calendar again. This time I’m showing a nativity scene.

It is a compilation of figures of the holy family, shepherds with sheep and wise men. The eleven motifs are arranged linearly in my embroidery.

The layout is shown below, with which you can put the individual figures together to form an overall pattern similar to my embroidery. The cutting frames and the intersection points are included with each motif.

Since each figure is drawn separately, one can arrange the scene individually.

Each motif is given as an outline in two different sizes.
Size I
The combination shown above results in a pattern of approx. 73.5cm X approx. 21cm.
Size II
The combination shown above results in a pattern of approx. 103cm X approx. 30cm. The embroidery seen here was done in size II.

A designer’s draft for Schwalm whitework was modified by a graphic designer to perfect the overall composition. This is how a beautiful, sophisticated and coherent design was created.

The varied embroidery leaves room for your own creativity. It’s fun to work out the individual characters. If you have any difficulties in some details, I will help you with suggestions, instructions and lots of pictures. The Advent calendar awaits you from December 1st with detailed descriptions.

So that you too can embroider this unique project, I offer a document. It contains the reduced pattern that fits on one page, a reduced plan for putting the individual motifs together to form the overall pattern and the individual figures in two original sizes on 19 pages.

You can either download this document

Nativity Scene
Advent Calendar 2023
line drawings
19 pages
Text: English
3.35 MB file size
€19
(incl. 7% sales tax)
(€17,76 for customers outside the EU.)
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or order as aprint version.
In the print version, the individual figures are printed on high-quality tracing paper. The cutting frames and the intersection points are included with each motif. This makes putting the groups of motifs together very easy.

Nativity Scene
Advent Calendar 2023
line drawings
19 pages
Text: English
€24
(incl. 7% sales tax)
(€ 22,43for customers outside the EU.)
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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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Save Money – Buy Downloads

Save Money – Buy Downloads

Due to the coronavirus crisis, shipping options have been substantially reduced to many countries. For months, shipping of smaller packages (mainly books) has not been available.

In response to this issue, I have created downloadable pdf files of all my books that have been, up to this point, only available as printed versions.

If you like working from the screen or if you have a printer, you can now buy my publications taking advantage of two benefits:
1. No shipping costs and no long wait
2. Save on the purchase price. The titles listed below are less expensive as downloads. The gross price for these documents is €5 less than the gross price listed in my shop for the printed versions. Included in the gross price is sales tax – not collected from customers outside the EU.

This applies to:

Schwalm Whitework – Lesson #1 – Happel Hearts
download version: €20; printed version €25
Schwalm Whitework – Lesson #1 for left-hander – Happel Hearts
download version: €20; printed version €25
Schwalm Whitework – Lesson #2 – Tulip Wreath
download version: €20; printed version €25
Schwalm Whitework – Lesson #2 for left-hander – Tulip Wreath
download version: €20; printed version €25
Schwalm Whitework – Lesson #4 – Needle-Weaving Band Sampler
download version: €20; printed version €25
Schwalm Whitework – Lesson #4 for left-hander – Needle-Weaving Band Sampler
download version: €20; printed version €25
Basic Principles of Schwalm Whitework
download version: €24.90; printed version €29.90
Basic Principles of Schwalm Whitework – for left-hander
download version: €24.90; printed version €29.90
Early Schwalm Whitework
download version: €30; printed version €35
Schwalm Crowns
download version: €30; printed version €35
Grand Schwalm Crowns
download version: €30; printed version €35
Fancy Hems
download version: €24.90; printed version €29.90
Schwalm Needle-Weaving Bands
download version: €20; printed version €25
Openwork Pattern Samplers
download version: €30; printed version €35
Openwork Needleweaving Patterns
download version: €24.90; printed version €29.90
Limetrosen I – English
download version: €30; printed version €35
Stars
download version: €30; printed version €35
Stickereien – English
download version: €10; printed version €15
Easter Eggs
download version: €10; printed version €15
Embroidered Easter Eggs
download version: €10; printed version €15

Due to the large file sizes, I had to divide some of them into several parts.

If you are interested, please email me.

Schwalm Bird Wedding Designs

Schwalm Bird Wedding Designs

For me bird motifs in Schwalm whitework are particularly attractive and extremely interesting. So I asked the designer Christa Waldmann to create a design in which bird representations play a major role. She has accomplished a masterly feat and designed a total of 14 different pairs of birds – always in conjunction with other suitable motifs typical for Schwalm whitework. Since the birds are always arranged in pairs, I called the drawings “bird wedding patterns.” As in nature, there are small and large, inconspicuous and eye-catching specimens. You can easily use the individual motif groupings for things like table runners or pillows.

Because I had so much fun embroidering these motifs, I embroidered them twice – once as a “bird wedding sampler” and then as a border around a square cloth. Visitors to my exhibition will surely have fond memories of both pieces.

Now I offer the extraordinary drawings in my shop for downloading. In addition to the original size motif groupings, the layout and dimensions for a sampler and examples of the arrangement of a square and an octagonal cloth can be found there.

Finally, thirty-four photos of the embroidered motif groupings will provide you with a lot of inspiration.

Schwalm
Bird Wedding Designs
• line-drawn designs
• 19 pages, text: English
• 7.48 MB file size
• in addition 34 images with examples of different embroidered bird motifs
• 25.00 EUR (incl. 7.00 % sales tax)
(23.36 EUR for customers outside the EU)

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