Flower Embroidery
I know last week I shared a cross stitch embroidery pattern and I try to change things up every week, but I found this Easter Lily embroidery design and couldn’t resist.
I love the old embroidery books put out by the silk thread makers. The flower designs are amazing. This Easter Lily color plate is from a M. Hemingway & Sons Silk Company book. A Treatise on Embroidery-Crochet and Knitting with Illustrations dated 1899-1900.
Isn’t this a beautiful cover:
M. Hemingway & Sons Thread and Color Chart
Before I share the flower chart with you, I’ve added a page that will be helpful in embroidering this Easter Lily.
One is the types of threads the company manufactured. The flower is embroidered in Japan Floss, the finest size thread.
I found this handy little chart on another colored plate. Not only does it show a sample of the color thread, it also includes the number next to it.
Flower Embroidery Chart
The numbers are a little hard to read. Use the Easter Lily Colored Plate above to best determine the correct colors. After you save it, you can enlarge the file to see it better in your photo software or print to trace the flower.
Follow the numbers and letters for the direction of the stitches. There are several shades of each color.
These download instructions will work with all the images.
Download Instructions: Right-Click on the image and select either “save link as” or “save image as” depending on what browser you are using or simply click on it, it will open in a new window and save it from there.
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I’d like to know, how to embroider using satin stitch like in the illustration, and keep from “cutting” holes in the fabric? If I were to use my needle to stitch so close together, wouldn’t the holes from the needle be too close together? Ive done satin stitch on those cotton material crewel embroidery kits like from Bucilla, & Creative Needlecraft kits from 70s & 80s, and it’s pretty hard to do such a fine satin stitch because you’d have to make the stitches literally one thread apart, and with some of the fabric backings that is not easy.
My grandmother has some silk “paintings” from Asia that embroidery is so fine, they are of an old Asian man and woman, and they look like fine art but are of satin and long and short stitch Chinese silk embroidery. I don’t know how they were made without the seamstress making holes in the backing fabric by the needle making so many pricks with the thread?