Help Me to Reach My October Goals!

I have spent a majority of my adult life on learning and the recreation of blackwork embroidery, also known as double-running stitch. With this knowledge, I have put together a few embroidery books, plus have a YouTube channel and more. 

Any support with helping my page and my channel grow is much appreciated! 

 

         Buy a book and help me to reach my goal of 500 books sold! 

- 16th to 18th Century Double-Running Stitch Embroidery Patterns book on Amazon

- 16th to 18th Century Double-Running Stitch Embroidery Patterns book on Barnes & Noble

- Patterns from 16th Century Pattern Books book on Amazon 

- Pre-18th Century Embroidery Patterns book on Amazon 

 

- Send Stars to help me reach my October goal of 5,000 and follow my Tudor Blackwork Embroidery page on Facebook. To send Stars on a video, click on Write a Comment and then click on the star below the comment field.

- Subscribe to my Lynne Fairchild channel on YouTube to help me reach my goal of 7,000 subscribers! Currently sitting at 6,894

- Watch a video and click like on the video. Here is a drafting embroidery pattern video to get started! 

 

 

  

Suggested Items to Purchase for Embroidery and Hand-Sewing

In no particular order, here are suggested items found on Amazon to use for embroidery:

 

- Embroidery Needles

- Hand Needles 

- Embroidery Starter Kit

- Beeswax

- Embroidery Hoops (6 piece set)

- Embroidery Scissors

- Leather Thimbles (4 piece set)

- Even Weave Linen Fabric 

- Fabric Scissors

- Magnetic Pin Holder

- Tomato Pin Cushion

- Quilting Pins

- Hooks and Eyes 

- Craft Stand (to hold embroidery frame) 

- Flexible Light (attach to craft stand to see the embroidery better) 

- Hands-Free Magnifying Glass 

  

 

 Other items to look into:

- I've not tried this slate frame. Any opinions on it? 

- Silk thread on Amazon. Maybe worth a try? 

- I'm hesitant to buy linen fabric online, especially when it doesn't include the weight (light vs. heavy linen).  

Did a Student of Holbein's Draw this Sketch of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester?

Did a student of Hans Holbein the Younger draw this sketch of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester? 

 

According to the Royal Collection Trust: 

Although long attributed to Holbein, this drawing is probably by another artist, who echoes Holbein's use of prink prepared paper. The pink priming has been rougly applied in comparison to that on the Holbein sheets. The facial features are more clumsily drawn than on any of Holbein's drawings and the modelling is largely in watercolour or wash rather than chalk. The drawing probably dates from the later sixteenth century when Fisher began to be revered as a Catholic martyr and large numbers of painted and printed portraits were produced to meet a growing demand for his image. A date in the later sixteenth century would also explain a pattern for Fisher's face in the National Portrait Gallery, London (inv. NPG 2821) which is thought to have been used in a late sixteenth-century painter's workshop and which is based on the present drawing.

 

 

The French Poet and the German Painter meet in the English Court of Henry VIII

Nicholas Bourbon the Elder was born in France in 1503. He became a poet, humanist, and religious reformer. In 1534, he found himself in the circle of Anne Boleyn, the 2nd wife of King Henry VIII of England. This was due to a conflict that he had with the Catholic Church and sought sanctuary. 

 Nicholas Bourbon (Royal Collection Trust)

From his proximity to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Bourbon met Hans Holbein the Younger, whom he identified in a letter in 1536 to Thomas Soulement, Henry VIII’s French secretary, as 'the king's painter'. 

 

Bourbon wrote this of Holbein:

 Whilst with a hand of outstanding skill, the godlike mind of Hans was portraying my features on the panel, my jaw dropped and I uttered this song: ‘Hans painting me was greater than Apelles’. (History Today) 

 

 

Have I Mentioned How Much I Appreciate the Details that Some Museums Provide?

I absolutely love how some museums make it possible to enhance a portrait so much so that one can easily see the blackwork embroidery design on the sitter's clothes.

 

Above is a Portrait of a Woman by Hans Holbein the Younger (circa 1532-1534) at the Morgan Library & Museum.  

 

 

 

 

My Latest Book is now Available at Barnes & Noble

My most recent book, 16th to 18th Century Double-Running Stitch Embroidery Patterns, is now available at Barnes & Noble (as well as on Amazon). 

Click here to order it!

  

My Embroidery Books are on Amazon and Barnes & Noble!

Have you ordered one of my embroidery books yet? 😀 My author profile on Amazon can be found here.

 

-  Patterns from 16th Century Pattern Books (Modelbücher)

 

-  16th to 18th Century Double-Running Stitch Embroidery Patterns

 

-  Pre-18th Century Embroidery Patterns

 

 

 

My latest embroidery book is also available with Barnes and Noble!  

 

- 16th to 18th Century Double-Running Stitch Embroidery Patterns eBook