Where to go next with stumpwork
More shapes and history.
- Try sheer wings for insects.
- Try filling slips with single-strand thread painting.
- Raised embroidery was popular in England between 1650 and 1700.
- At the time it was called raised or embossed work; 'stumpwork' dates from about the end of the 19th century.
- Making an embroidered casket was the final, hardest task for a student then.
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