Embroidery On Card

When I first saw card embroidery on the internet I was fascinated by how it resembled the pin and thread pictures of the sixties and seventies. It is basically the use of linear design with the creative addition of thread to produce beautiful cards. It can be both simple and complex which allows it to be practiced at all levels.

Originally I hammered nails into an insulating board and produced the pattern by threading cotton or string from pin to pin. These tended to be large pieces of work and after years of moving home and with the fashions changing I no longer have any. Updating the idea onto card, however, gives a new and refreshing approach. Now instead of pins the card has holes pricked in it and the finer thread goes back and forth through the holes. By using two-fold cards the working side is neatly hidden from view.

I am reminded of those first pictures I did so many years ago and will have to find ways of reducing the ideas so I can reproduce them on cards. A nice idea but it may be simpler just to do new designs such as the eclipse pattern I did this summer.

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