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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Advent Calendar 2019 – Christmas Wreath

I would like to again end the year with another advent calendar. I began presenting advent calendars on my blog in 2016. That advent calendar consisted of twenty-four delicate wreath designs, and many of my blog readers were enthusiastic about them. Thus encouraged, I continued to think up holiday projects. In 2017 there were small projects embroidered with typical Schwalm motifs, and in 2018 there was a meeting of angels.

This year’s project is a big wreath motif – representing the

Nativity scene.

Some will surely ask: “Once again the Christmas story as the motif? Are there not yet enough different designs on this subject?” I don’t think so.
This pattern is something special. It is a beautiful and coherent composition that was designed by an artist; an embroidery designer made slight changes to ensure a better stitching experience, and finally a graphic designer rendered the pattern into the clean line drawing you see in the end of this article.

Even if you have already embroidered a project with the Christmas story, it is worth further realization with the present design. It’s a lot of fun to work out the very different characters. And although some might encounter difficulties in some details, rest assured that I will help you with suggestions, instructions, and many pictures. I hope the daily – starting tomorrow! – detailled instructions will delight you.

The design is laid out as a wreath. The external diameter measures between 60 cm and 66 cm. The design is suitable for a special cloth, a wall hanging, or a curtain.

Of course the single characters or the groups of figures can be arranged in other ways. For example one might choose to create a band, to arrange them as a square or rectangle, or to cut them a little bit similar to Jessica Grimm´s project.

It is suitable and easy to mount single characters or groups of figures in an embroidery hoop for a casual holiday display, like the angels shown in the bottom parts of Advent Calendar 2018 – No. 1 and Advent Calendar 2018 – No. 15.

I can imagine very well the embroidery mounted on a LED panel for decorating a wall.

But if one wishes to hang it so that it is backlit (e.g., hung in a window), threads carried on the back side will be visible. One can remedy this by using double knots at the beginning and end of each small section separately and trimming the thread tails short.

The embroidery is richly diverse and leaves room for one’s own creativity. It is really fun to embroider this beautiful design!


Christmas Wreath
Advent Calendar 2019
line drawings
23 pages, text: englisch, 4.2 MB file size
EUR24.00
(inc. 19% sales tax, so it is EUR20.17 for customers outside the EU)
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Schwalm Whitework – Oval Cap Designs

Drawing on the rich designs found on cap bottoms as inspiration, I asked the designer Christa Waldmann to draw outlines for whitework; she created some beautiful designs.

Using these motifs, three different projects have been embroidered so far: a pretty table runner,

a nice pillowcase and my favorite piece, a fancy tea cloth with scalloped edges.

Of course there are many other possible layouts for gorgeous Schwalm projects.

I am so happy with these special designs, and I think you will be, too.

There are three different series:

1. Oval Cap Designs (1)
Same size ovals with scalloped edges in five different point symmetric designs; includes five pictures of embroidered examples.

2. Oval Cap Designs (2)
Same size simple ovals in eight different axially symmetric designs; includes one picture of an embroidered example.

3. Oval Cap Designs (3)
Same size ovals with scalloped edges and fancy edge borders in six different point symmetric designs with eighteen variants in all; includes six pictures of embroidered examples.


Oval Cap Designs (1)
line-drawn designs
Same-sized ovals with scallop edges in five different point symmetric designs and in addition five pictures with embroidered examples.

  • 10 pages
  • 4,32 MB file size (2 different pdf-files in all)
  • text: English

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Oval Cap Designs (2)
line-drawn designs
Same-sized simple ovals in eight different axially symmetric designs and in addition one picture with an embroidered example

  • 9 pages
  • 3,46 MB file size (2 different pdf-files in all)
  • text: English

download here


Oval Cap Designs (3)
line-drawn designs
Same-sized ovals with scallop edges and fancy edge borders in six different point symmetric designs with eighteen variants in all and in addition six pictures with embroidered examples.

  • 24 pages
  • 11 MB file size (3 different pdf-files in all)
  • text: English

download here