[HNW] Bostocke sampler?

[Tracy Thallas]

  Or maybe even smaller - just looked in the King/Levy book, and the entire
piece is listed as 16.75" x 14" - all that patterning crammed into a smaller
space than a modern cut of Aida or linen.  Wow...  wish I still had that
kind of eyesight....

Liadain


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On Behalf Of Alexandria Doyle
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 1:25 PM
To: Historic Needlework
Subject: Re: [HNW] Bostocke sampler?

I just looked at photos I'd taken on a trip in the past, and while I
can zoom in and see that the stitches were worked over two or three
threads, I can't tell you what the thread per inch count is, since I
did that with lots of other needleworks, but not that one.  sorry.

I want to say this is closer to 28 stitches per inch than 14, but have
nothing to back that up but distant impression.

alex



n Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Tracy Thallas <fathallas at collinscom.net>
wrote:
>  Does anyone have an idea about the average stitch count on the Bostocke
> sampler (V&A)?   Just curious - I like to work "small", but seems to me
that
> 14 stitch/inch is kind of a standard nowadays...
>
> Liadain
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