The back badge is cut from woollen fabric (the Hainsworths unfraying kind), and all the stitching is done by hand.
Showing posts with label livery badges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label livery badges. Show all posts
Sunday, 2 October 2011
Falcon and fetterlock livery
A piece I delivered this week - already to be seen on my facebook page - a blue and white livery coat with a falcon and fetterlock back badge.
The back badge is cut from woollen fabric (the Hainsworths unfraying kind), and all the stitching is done by hand.
The back badge is cut from woollen fabric (the Hainsworths unfraying kind), and all the stitching is done by hand.
Friday, 16 September 2011
Etsy and Facebook
I've been meaning to do this for ages, but time, time, time...
Anyway, I have finally set up a facebook page (or pages) for my work.
My costume page is here http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Deborah-Lough/123277781105753 (or search on Deborah Lough).
And the page for my padding is here http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/The-Padded-Armour-Company/122691571164098
Click on the links to either page, and then click like, and you'll get updates of what I'm doing, and pretty pictures of my work, etc.
Now then, other news is that I've just set up an Etsy shop, where I'll be listing assorted items of costume, and accessories, both stock items and pieces that are made to order.
You can find it here - http://www.etsy.com/shop/DeborahLoughCostumes - at the moment I have some livery badges listed for sale, and I'll be adding more over the weekend, as well as some other bits and pieces.
I'm also in the process of setting up a shop for my padding.
All quite exiting, and I may actually be approaching the 21st century (not entering yet, but approaching!!)
Anyway, I have finally set up a facebook page (or pages) for my work.
My costume page is here http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Deborah-Lough/123277781105753 (or search on Deborah Lough).
And the page for my padding is here http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/The-Padded-Armour-Company/122691571164098
Click on the links to either page, and then click like, and you'll get updates of what I'm doing, and pretty pictures of my work, etc.
Now then, other news is that I've just set up an Etsy shop, where I'll be listing assorted items of costume, and accessories, both stock items and pieces that are made to order.
You can find it here - http://www.etsy.com/shop/DeborahLoughCostumes - at the moment I have some livery badges listed for sale, and I'll be adding more over the weekend, as well as some other bits and pieces.
I'm also in the process of setting up a shop for my padding.
All quite exiting, and I may actually be approaching the 21st century (not entering yet, but approaching!!)
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Hand Embroidery
Embroidery, (by hand, that is), is one of my favourite types of stitching.
All hand sewing is far more attractive to me than machine sewing, because there's so much more variety, and so much more to learn, but hand embroidery is the thing I like the best.
It could be because I started to embroider when I was very young. I was around two years old. I was apparently an annoying, curious child, so my Nana sat me down with a needle and thread to keep me from sticking my fingers into sockets, or the fire, etc, etc.
Or it could be because there's just so much to learn - there are so many different types of embroidery, and so many individual stitches, that it would take a lifetime or longer to master them all.
Or it could be that embroidery doesn't serve any real purpose. Embroidery isn't really functional, or utilitarian. It's a frippery - it's entirely decorative. A beautiful thing that serves no other real purpose other than to be beautiful!
I like that.
Anyway, all of that said, my latest piece of embroidery does serve a purpose. It's a medieval (Wars of the Roses) livery badge.
This one is stitched in silk embroidery floss, on a linen ground (the backing fabric). The body of the badge is done entirely in split stitch, and the outline and detail in back stitch.
This is currently on display alongside an original metal badge of the time, at Wakefield Museum, in their exhibition 'The Battle of Wakefield', which is open Tuesday - Saturday, 10.30am - 4.30pm. It's on till the 29th January 2011.
All hand sewing is far more attractive to me than machine sewing, because there's so much more variety, and so much more to learn, but hand embroidery is the thing I like the best.
It could be because I started to embroider when I was very young. I was around two years old. I was apparently an annoying, curious child, so my Nana sat me down with a needle and thread to keep me from sticking my fingers into sockets, or the fire, etc, etc.
Or it could be because there's just so much to learn - there are so many different types of embroidery, and so many individual stitches, that it would take a lifetime or longer to master them all.
Or it could be that embroidery doesn't serve any real purpose. Embroidery isn't really functional, or utilitarian. It's a frippery - it's entirely decorative. A beautiful thing that serves no other real purpose other than to be beautiful!
I like that.
This one is stitched in silk embroidery floss, on a linen ground (the backing fabric). The body of the badge is done entirely in split stitch, and the outline and detail in back stitch.
This is currently on display alongside an original metal badge of the time, at Wakefield Museum, in their exhibition 'The Battle of Wakefield', which is open Tuesday - Saturday, 10.30am - 4.30pm. It's on till the 29th January 2011.
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