Works: Part 1 Needlework
needlework | food art | fashion | toys and tools
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 Regency pineapple reticule |
 General Carleton hat |
  Two sets of wedding pillowcases, made by Sharon from white linen and cross-stitched after the manner of Pennsylvania German show-towels with symbolic representations of love, beauty, fruitfulness, and devotion. |
 A full set of bed-hangings, made for the Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation. These bed-hangings are of Scalamandre reproduction indigo-resist-dyed linen, bound with navy blue "ferret", and are completely hand-sewn. |
 Embroidered waistcoat, worked in silk thread on silk peau de soie. |
 Detail of embroidered waistcoat. |
 A tent-stitch "fishing lady" picture, based on one at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. A private commission, it's worked in over 70 colors of naturally dyed yarn! |
Bible cover in flamestitch, after one in Winterthur collections worked by Sharon in yarns all natural dyed by herself. |
 Chairseat in needlepoint, after one in the Chester County Historical Society. |
 Chairseat in needlepoint, after one in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. |
 Chairseat in needlepoint, after a 17th Century piece in the Victoria and Albert Museum. |
 Pole screen worked in flame-stitch, the carnation design after a wallet in the Winterthur Collection. All the yarns were natural-dyed by Sharon. |
