Comments on: Left Upper Sleeve http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/11/22/left-upper-sleeve/ The blog for Plimoth Plantation's 17 Century embroidered jacket project. Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:44:35 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: coral-seas http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/11/22/left-upper-sleeve/comment-page-1/#comment-2357 coral-seas Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:37:05 +0000 http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/?p=1312#comment-2357 Wonderful, it is not difficult to imagine this finished now. I love how the gold vines tie everything together. CA Wonderful, it is not difficult to imagine this finished now. I love how the gold vines tie everything together.

CA

]]> By: Lia http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/11/22/left-upper-sleeve/comment-page-1/#comment-2355 Lia Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:37:13 +0000 http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/?p=1312#comment-2355 Wonderful photos of the front of the embroidery - more of that please! But what I am really interested is seeing how this looks from the back. Especially for the braided plait stitch, but all the rest of the embroidery too. The front is all flash and fancy and the reason we do the embroidery in the first place, but the back tells so much about how it is worked, and is so often overlooked. And almost never do you get to see the back of museum pieces. Please, please show us the backs of the panels! Wonderful photos of the front of the embroidery – more of that please!
But what I am really interested is seeing how this looks from the back. Especially for the braided plait stitch, but all the rest of the embroidery too.

The front is all flash and fancy and the reason we do the embroidery in the first place, but the back tells so much about how it is worked, and is so often overlooked. And almost never do you get to see the back of museum pieces. Please, please show us the backs of the panels!

]]> By: Mary Corbet http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2008/11/22/left-upper-sleeve/comment-page-1/#comment-2354 Mary Corbet Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:31:21 +0000 http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/?p=1312#comment-2354 Beautiful!! The gold really adds a lot, doesn't it! I'm looking forward to seeing the bird started, too. Wow - it looks great! The ladies are doing a wonderful job! Curious about the worms, and maybe I missed this info somewhere, but I'll ask, just in case. As you embroidered the jacket, was the color scheme for the worms already worked out, or did each stitcher just randomly get to decide what color a worm was if she came upon it? Was there a pattern to the worm colors spaced around the jacket, or was that the stitcher's choice? I only ask because they seem so varied, but then there seem to be more of one color combo on the sleeve - there are four of the dark and light (blue, I think?) ones. Anyway, just curious! Beautiful!! The gold really adds a lot, doesn’t it! I’m looking forward to seeing the bird started, too. Wow – it looks great! The ladies are doing a wonderful job!

Curious about the worms, and maybe I missed this info somewhere, but I’ll ask, just in case. As you embroidered the jacket, was the color scheme for the worms already worked out, or did each stitcher just randomly get to decide what color a worm was if she came upon it? Was there a pattern to the worm colors spaced around the jacket, or was that the stitcher’s choice?

I only ask because they seem so varied, but then there seem to be more of one color combo on the sleeve – there are four of the dark and light (blue, I think?) ones. Anyway, just curious!

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