After the detour into goldwork, I’m back to a long-and-short project again now. I want to try something a bit different with the background this time, but that’s a long way off – I need to do the actual embroidery first. This design features stylised, rather exaggerated oak leaves. Here’s the design with some gold…
Or nué peacock feather: progress update
I’m still carrying on with the or nué project, though I must admit that although it’s a very time-consuming technique, I’ve also not been spending as much time on sewing as usual due to other non-sewing commitments, so progress is slower than normal. It is coming along, though, and here’s how it’s looking now: I’ll be…
Peacock feather: or nué
As part of illustrating the articles elsewhere on the site, I’m now working on a piece of or nué for the article Goldwork – couching with colour and or nué (I’ve done the ‘couching with colour‘ part already). ‘Or nué’ means ‘shaded gold’, and is a form of goldwork embroidery where the entire design is…
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