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I'd love to learn Tapestry

  • 03-02-2009 4:35pm
    #1
    lillyislost
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    My granny was brilliant at Tapestry (she made loads of lovely cushions and even seat covers) and she always said she would show me how to do it. Sadly she died before ever showing me! The other day I was rooting through some stuff and I found one of her patterns (unused) with all the wool. I was wondering does anyone know where I could learn or does anyone know anybody who could show me how to do it? I live in the Kildare area.
    Thanks a million!


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  • #2
    lemon_sherbert
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    I've only dabbled in it myself, but my mother has been doing tapestry for as long as I remember.

    It's simple enough really. Each stitch is traditionally one diagonal stitch slanting right. If you have a chart/pattern, you simply take each little four dot square on the base fabric as a square on the chart and fill them all in.

    I hope this helped, if not, your best bet may be to purchase a book. Tapestry is a dying art in Ireland, and it's hard enough to find the wools, let alone someone to teach you, unfortunately.


  • #3
    snowey07
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    I love tapestry : Id really love to one of the really big pictures . This is a great link

    http://www.threadneedlestreet.com/ContinentalHalfCross.html

    Its an American site so you should be following the instructions for half cross stitch ( called tent stitch in Europe). If youre searching on line , bear in mind tapestry is called needlepoint in the states.

    best of luck


  • #4
    Waternews
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    I've done a few myself, but it's been a while, so I'm no teacher. However, it was very simple to pick up - if you have the knack for that kind of thing anyway... IYKWIM.

    YouTube is a fantastic resource of tutorials which are absolutely brilliant, once you find the right one.

    You can undo any work that you do (carefully!), so just find the instructions for the appropriate stitch if it's partially completed, and just have a go.

    I've found that there is a lot of craft geniuses out there posting how to's on blogs and community websites, so you should be able to find something pretty easily.

    You can purchase amazing kits online, and usually at the knitting and stitching show in November in the RDS.


  • #5
    Calina
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    lillyislost wrote: »
    My granny was brilliant at Tapestry (she made loads of lovely cushions and even seat covers) and she always said she would show me how to do it. Sadly she died before ever showing me! The other day I was rooting through some stuff and I found one of her patterns (unused) with all the wool. I was wondering does anyone know where I could learn or does anyone know anybody who could show me how to do it? I live in the Kildare area.
    Thanks a million!

    Hi Lilly,

    tapestry is not all that difficult to be honest. You don't say what size patterns you have but one possible place to start looking for help is if you maybe put up a notice in your local library looking for help or find a stitchnbitch group. The stitchnbitch people tend to be knitters first and foremost but if you turned up at mine, I'd give you a hand.

    Effectively, all it amounts to is using threads to colour in things a bit like a colouring book. If you can sew at all, it's not difficult.

    If you really want to give it a shot, it's worth getting one of the smaller starting kits before hitting onto the big ones. I know that you'll get some of them sometimes in either Dublin Woollen Mills on the quays in Dublin, or in Inspiring Ideas in Blanch. If you're not often in Dublin, online is a good place to start looking and from the UK I have ordered stuff from SewandSew. My preferred online store for tapestry/needlepoint stuff is now a French site called La Maison du Canevas and I've ordered quite a bit of stuff from there. They have by far the biggest collection of tapestry patterns I've seen anywhere on the web. Site is in French however and they constantly have sales. i started off with a kit that I never finished, quite, that was something like 7 by 5 inches in size.

    If you are really stuck and can make it into Dublin City centre some day I will be happy to meet you somewhere in town (I live in Swords myself) and get you started.

    snowey07 - Inspiring Ideas have at least one very big one. I have two or three smaller ones on the go at the moment - small being relative. So far the biggest one I've finished is something like 16 by 20 inches. I've a bigger one on the go at the moment which has thread that I'm finding hard to get with. That French site has some that are almost 1.7m wide though. Serious amount of work.


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