[Ansteorra] England's Royal School of Needlework

[Hillary Greenslade]

Forward from the Medieval-Trivia yahoo group, for my needlework friends, 
Cheers, Hillary

[outlands] England's Royal School of Needlework 

If you ever really want to learn how late period 
embroidery was done, you can learn from experts 
in the field at the Royal School of Needlework. 
They have day-long classes up to degree 
programs. They do offer courses in San Francisco 
and Tokyo if you can't make it to Hampton Court. 
I found out about this school while watching some 
of the never-ending wedding videos of William and Catherine.

<http://www.royal-needlework.org.uk/>http://www.royal-needlework.org.uk/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CMpwkCMaqk&feature=youtu.be

Upcoming classes:
Developing Goldwork
Goldwork Millefiore Broocher
Instruction tion Jacobean
Developing Mountmellick Whitework
Silk Shading
Creative Watercolors

I plan on going to Winterthur this week to se the 
Plimoth jacket. 
<http://www.winterthur.org/?p=822>http://www.winterthur.org/?p=822 
so I already had embroidery on my mind.

>The Plimoth Jacket Project
>More than 300 people spent over 3,700 hours to 
create the Plimoth Jacket. Some worked on the 
silk embroidery and gold plaited braid, while 
others stitched on the “oes,� the term in use 
in the 1600s for the round sequins. The project 
was conceived and managed by Jill Hall, 
former >head of the colonial wardrobe department 
at Plimoth Plantation. She was aided by a team of 
experts in embroidery, lace, metal-smithing, and 
weaving, including 
<http://www.thistle-threads.com/about/whoweare/index.html>Dr. 
Tricia Wilson Nguyen, Wendy White, Carolyn 
Hastings, Mark Atchison, Justin Squizzero, and Denise Lebica.
>The sewing, embroidery, and lace were all 
entirely done by hand. The lace spangles (the 
tear-drop shaped sequins hanging from the lace) 
were created using tools made specifically for 
the project. The tools and techniques replicate 
those from the 1600s. Even the lining was 
hand->woven and dyed with natural indigo.

Mina