So this week’s TAST was couching.
This is a stitch or group of stitches that is so versatile that I was at a loss what to do. You can couch almost anything using almost any stitch.
What I did here is probably better called laid work. Or nue is done the same way just with gold thread and silk. If you use different colours and patterns for the couching stitches it is called new england laid work.
-the next one shows – from left to right – oriental couching, bokhara couching and figure stitch.
Sorry I had no time to be more verbose today.
Tenar's cave 
March 5th, 2012 at 6:51 pm
Again, lovely! I love the ‘acanthus’ shapes you are highlighting from the lace.
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March 8th, 2012 at 9:37 am
Gorgeous! This really enhances and emboldens the lace. bravo to you for doing tast again. I thought about it but decided not to as I now have a little one in tow. love seeing your work though.
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March 11th, 2018 at 2:51 am
[…] stitches. The left (dark teal blue and chartreuse) is called a New England Laid Work according to Tenar. The next block is Jacobian (using tiny cross-stitches) but rather than doing a traditional grid, I […]
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