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Hello all,
This is a table runner and I was wondering if this needlepoint pattern has a name or if perhaps it was some kind of specific ethnic pattern. Any clues? French, Mexican, Italian, Dutch?
As always, I am forever grateful for all your amazing input.
Sigilini
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the holes on the edge are called either openwork or drawn thread work. In Ukrainian it’s called merezhka.
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Hey Sigilini:
Have some info. for you but it is from one of our helpers, Lisa. Knitting, needlework, crocheting, etc., etc. is her wheelhouse not mine or Susan’s.First Lisa said, if you can get a much closer [close-up] she can find out more because she can count the stitching and can also see if multiple stitches were intermixed. Also if you can show a photo of the back also. From the back photo she can tell if it was hand made or machine made or a combination of both.
From what she could see and count on this one photo, it is done on Aida Cloth 28 count and done in a 14 count pattern. That is where the “crosss-stitch” goes corner to corner in a square and is called a 4 count on the square. Then the count can double up or increase if the maker wants to span larger distances in one color. From what she can see without being closer up this seems to be mostly in the 14 count.
The thread seems to be a DMC Floss [a thicker, fuzzier thread] instead of a traditional needlepoint thread, which is thinner and each thread can be seen. The floss [fuzzier-fatter thread] is good for blended together and using over large areas.
She said if you take a photo of the back [close up] and of the lower front corner of the pattern she will be able to do a count for you to be more accurate.
She is coming back over tomorrow and would be glad to take another look for you and see if she can shed any more light about it. Also she may be able to cross reference a few older pattern sites she relies on the identify the over pattern.
Hope this helps somewhat and if u post any more photos before 8 am tomorrow I will show her when she comes into the office.
Good Luck:
mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art -
Hi Mike, first of all let me say that I am so sorry about Susan and I am very hopeful and praying for good news. You are both in my thoughts and prayers.
Thank you for your reply, and thank you for asking Lisa. Her input would be amazing. Are these photos enough?
Thank you again, Mike. I am so thankful to know you and everyone else here.
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Good morning:
Lisa came into the office this morning and took a look at the extra photos.About the only extra thing she said that she didn’t say yesterday was, yes, it is handmade and the back shows that, and she also agreed with Sonia, that while not as neat as a machine, which was what she was looking closely in the enlarged views at, that it is very neatly done. The person who did this took time to back trim all the threads very neatly, evenly and tightly to the canvass surface.
The small open pattern border that is closest to the image area is probably the drawn thread technique and if done by hand takes time to pull back the thread in both the warp and weft directions.
The outer edge border was done separately. The border is a double crochet technique then small loop thread wwork to attach it all the way around.
Lisa mentioned that some Aida cloth-canvass can be bought with the drawn thread borders already done and the artisan creates the image within the existing border.
All in all she thinks it is a more current piece and is probably not an antique but not being and expert, she thinks it would show more age if it was of antique age.
Hope all of this helped shed some light on your item. If it was just me all I would have been able to say is, “That’s Nice!”, HaHa LOL :-).
Lisa is here today so I will tell her, thank’s for the input.
Mike at MDCGFA
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