Week 31 Shisha and Kutch Inspired Embroidery
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- This week we look at the colourful embroidery of Gujarat and explore shisha or mirror work and two types of chain stitch.
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Threads of Identity by Judy Frater
Crafts of Gujarat by Mapin International
The Techniques of Indian Embroidery by Anne Morrell
Ethnic Embroidery of India by Usha Shrikant
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Woke at 4:00 am (in Canada) and couldn't go back to sleep without checking if your Monday video is up, and it was! Who needs sleep when there's a new stitching adventure to be taken? Informative and inspiring video as always, Kathryn. Thank you!
Good morning! I am always up early too ♥️
Amazing, so happy to learn this I'm 75 & just learning embroidery this is just the thing for my homework when back in class
I hope you enjoy it ❤️
It s taken me 9 days to watch this particular cloth tale but I m so glad I have. Always inspiring and nourishing to me. At the weekend friends brought Prosecco to the lunch I made for us all….a little silvery disc made from the foil cover on the bottle awaits….🧡 xxx
Excellent use of prosecco foil. 😁♥️
@@k3n.clothtales k3n… we were forced to drink it just so I could use the foil !!😁🧡x
@@lesleymccallion2185 of course you were 😂❤️❤️❤️
I have wondered how the little mirrors were stitched onto fabric and now I see! You are such an inspiration! Thank you so much for this series!! Enjoy visiting your friends!
My pleasure and thank you 😊
Oh it’s the New Zealand contingent! 🪶
I’m loving watching your stitching (most intently) and can feel my creative cup filling to overflowing.
When you mentioned that it takes quite a lot of thread to stitch around your shisha I immediately replied to myself that stitching is always worthy of thread 🧵 ❤
Thank you so much for sharing the beautiful books and some history to spark us off!
Enjoy the rest of your amazing and special time with your friend!
Thank you, yes I agree stitching is worthy of thread is a lovely way to put it ♥️
This looks like a challenge but a fun one , thanks for sharing I will definitely try this ❤❤❤😊 looks beautiful 😍
@@debrablanson2288 thank you ❤️
Ty for sharing. The red thread ladder chain stitch is new to me. Yay I learned something new.
You are welcome, I have been doing more of it today and it's really beautiful ❤️
Can't wait to try this later! I have some sisha mirrors just waiting to be used. Yes Dilliway is still selling beautiful textiles, I could totally live in that shop on the top floor 🥰
Me too, glad to hear they are still going strong. I might try to get over there ❤️
That's coincidental! I just made a mirror embroidery piece in my mandala of two weeks ago!
Wow -I love this…❤
So wonderful you have a friend to craft with, hopefully you will show the eco printing that you did together!❤
Hello Megan, I am currently making a journal with it, I will show it when it's done 😁♥️
I truly appreciate your tutorial on this historic, ethnic stitching. I'm feeling sad that I never valued the cheap facsimiles purchased in years past. Now I can honour the tradition by trying my hand at their beautiful artistry. Thank you, K3N.
My pleasure 😊
Thank you Kathryn . I am watching this late.I have missed some weeks, my 46 yr old son has developed a unexpected illness and we lost him Aug 7th.Life will never be the same but we need to find a way to work through our grief .I am thinking of pulling my stitching out again to help soothe my soul .
I know your life transition is also painful but looking towards something positive each day gets one through difficult times.❤
I am so, so sorry for your loss, such indescribable grief. I truly hope that stitching can bring you comfort. Sending you much love and a big, gentle hug ❤️
@@k3n.clothtales ❤️
Thank you for the tip of using alternative materials instead of mirrors. I am a huge coffee drinker and some of the coffee bags are coloured in metallic colours like copper and silver. Now i know how to use them😊😊😊
Perfect!♥️
Your books look so interesting and where do you come up with all these ideas! I love this piece! 💜 Recycling the inside of a yogurt container is BRILLIANT!
Thank you Jeri, have to credit my friend for the yogurt lid idea 😁❤️
Yep, I couldn’t sleep either and there you are stitching.
Thanks for keeping me company
My pleasure ☺️
Playing catch-up. Been away for a few days. This looks interesting. Marion used a similar technique to attach beach finds to her hussif. Love how your channels overlap. I’m learning so much
Hello Alison, wondered where you had got too! 😁❤️
❤🙏 Beautiful. Thank you for sharing all the amazing techniques.
You are so 🤗
This was such a wonderful video and a real blast from the past for me. I've been in love with Indian textiles since my teenage (hippy) years and can remember teaching myself this technique with mirrors (without a book) when sewing onto my own clothes back then. I had no idea where to find the little circles of mirror so I actually smashed a small pocket mirror to bits in order to create my version of shisha. Looking forward to having a go at this again with a good teacher and more resources this time.
So pleased you enjoyed it, it sounds like you were a very resourceful teenager 😁❤️
The ladder stitch is new to me, and this piece you made today is beautiful. I look forward to adding mirrors and buttons and sea shells (oh, my😂) to many projects to come. ❤
You also reminded me of the desert island challenge... what would you take in your little bundle of craft supplies... it's wonderful to be able to borrow from friends. I love all the bright colors on today's art piece ❤❤❤
Thank you for all the work you put in to bring us inspiration ❤. Enjoy your vacation/holiday.
My pleasure Sheila and thank you, I am having a lovely time ❤️
Wow, love the video and project for this week, can’t wait to start.
Thanks K3n for sharing your work
My pleasure! 😊
I did buy some mirrors a few years back to do some of this but never got around to it, like a lot of things I want to try 😂
I'll have to dig them out and give it a go, thanks 🙂
I did finally get around to making a saucer for one of my Biscornu yesterday so that's something 😂
Thanks again 😊
My pleasure, each to its time 😁♥️
I tried sewing Shisha mirrors about 30 years ago. I can’t remember how successful I was, but I still have my extra mirrors! Does that make me a hoarder? 😂
@@megfowler4177 😂
I made 2 Biscornu when k3n showed us, I liked them so much & I was so proud of myself,but I & am still yet to make the saucers . 😅🤣😂🤣😂 Good for you 🇦🇺😎
Inspired from the unwrapping gifts video,it reminded me,clear up my creative drawer,with all the little things.
Just by chance before I started,I switched on your monday video.What a lovely surprise !
I'm connected to India since 51 years.Still arounded with real old embroidery pieces in our house.
I allways liked them,outfallen shisha pieces I kept.I'm sure,they will come in my hands today !
Your beautyfull books brought me back to all my journeys.I was straight in India.....
Hello your house sounds wonderful, I hope you enjoy using the little stray shishas in your stitching ♥️
Very interesting! I enjoyed watching and will be trying this. I like how you attach the Shisha.
Thank you Leona, have fun ❤️
This appeals to my gaudy heart.
I am so glad 😁❤️
If the family from that picture only knew how much their traditional and maybe daily stitching would inspire us! Unfortunately I can’t think of traditions like this from my country ….Cheesemaking, anybody?? Watermanagement?? 😊 I don’t mean to sound cynical, we have great painters in our history. But this kind of ‘daily’ craft somehow touches me more deeply. Beautiful Kathryn!🍀💖
Hello Machteld, a few years ago I saw a beautiful exhibition of Dutch quilts , I am trying to remember the name of the town... I think the exhibition was called Kunst met ein Q or something like that. Also you have the lovely chintz designs, I think brought to the Netherlands by the Huguenot? ❤️
@@k3n.clothtales oh yes, the Dutch have always been known for trading and brought over a lot from other far away countries (not always in the best or kindest way i’m afraid)! But i don’t really know of any special ‘craft’ traditions that were passed on from parent to child and survived generations. I know we have some traditional clothing that is culturally preserved (in Volendam for instance) but that is it. I didn’t mean to complain or sound jealous Kathryn 😀that picture of the little girl and older women sewing was just very moving to me! Anyway, i started sewing immediately after seeing the video😍🍀💖
@@dailydoseofpaper I didn't read it like that at all Machteld. 😊 I think the British have the same past too, now it's lovely that we have embraced so many influences from other countries but historically we were certainly not blameless in how we treated other countries. ❤️
Looks great. I remember clothes with the mirrors in it
Beautiful!
Love this week's video I have mirrors in my stash I've been thinking of doing so now I have a good reason to get on with it thanks for the inspo enjoy your holiday best wishes from Brisbane p.s a good way to untwist your thread is to just let it dangle down in the needle and it untwists itself 😊
Hello Kerry, I am pleased you enjoyed it. Yes I do the needle untwisting thing when I am stitching normally but it's a bit tricky to do over my desk and under the camera. 😉❤️
Kathryn - I really enjoyed this video and can't wait to start my own tomorrow. Thank you for putting this together. ❤
My pleasure, hope you enjoy stitching ♥️
Love love love❤ I’ve been to India a few times but never to Gujarat. Their embroidery is gorgeous. Must try. 😊
Hello Sandra, I am envious I would love to go ❤️
Hola k3n..gracias por tu paciencia al transmitir tus clases..tengo 80 años y contigo sigo aprendiendo..te felicito..a seguir!!! Desde Argentina!!!
Hola, gracias ❤️
Very pretty, and I'm glad you offered a solution for the shisha; I made mine from the shiny side of the lid of a small yogurt cup. I really appreciated learning how to sew the scaffold for the "mirror," as I've thought about doing so with stones, etc., but hadn't looked into it yet. Sadly, the chain ladder stitch is beyond me at the moment.I tried on my stitch sample cloth but will have to try again. It's one of those train-my-brain series of movements that has me flummoxed just now. Will try again because I like the look of it! Thank you, k3n, for another expansion of my wee brain. 🙂
My pleasure Kate, I was doing the ladder chain today and I was fine until people talked to me then I made a mess of it. 😂 It's a little counterintuitive not to pull it right through before starting the next stitch but I expect it will come with practice. I am making panels for an Indian inspired Japanese rice bag 😁😉❤️
How many journals do you have on the go now? I'm trying to remember - 3 or 4? Boro inspired, wonky wednesday, Weekly slowstitch, fairy journal... does the Forager's Journal count as one on the go? And then I feel like I've forgotten one! This is gorgeous, and I can't wait to try it! I have some Austrian crystals that would work as mirrors, I think, and maybe a few actual mirrors... I will have to have a dig round. Thank you for another beautiful week's stitching! 💚
😁 I have even more than that because I also have journals for sketching, paper collage, experimental 'whatever' journals that I haven't shown. Maybe you are thinking of Catching Everything That Drops, my scrapbook journal. Plus I have a book cover and paper and cloth we ecoprinted the other day waiting to be made into a journal. Not sure of the theme yet but inspiration will strike at one point. ❤️
This is so cool. I have always loved this sort of embroidery but never tried it. Here we go
Thank you
You’re welcome 😊
Really like this. So effective
Love this project! I have a nice collection of buttons - mine, Mum’s and Nan’s, all in their separate tins - and I reckon I have some flat metallic ones I can use as the shisha.
Sounds perfect ❤️
I plan to scaffold on my sea glass. They may look less tied down. A bit of glue stick too probably do the trick. Thanks again for all your sharing❤.
My pleasure, sea glass will be lovely ❤️
That was very interesting Kathryn. Thank you.
My pleasure Gloria ❤️
I love shisha! Haven’t done it in years. 💕
Oh loved this week, would love to do more Indian stitching it’s just so colourful. ❤
I have four squares prepared with motifs drawn on of designs from my friend's books and I am planning to make.... drum roll.... A rice bag 😁❤️
@@k3n.clothtales that sounds just brilliant, can’t wait to see it ❤️
Thanks for the new stitches!!❤
You are welcome Betty ♥️
Loved Loved this video thank you and happy stitching
I am so pleased you enjoyed it 😊
Thank you 😊 for sharing and a fun crafting technique 🎉. Enjoying making these pages for the year. First timer also😊🎉
You are so welcome! 🤗
Just enjoying looking at the three books. The embroidery looks beautiful. Regards from New Zealand.
Thank you! 😊
Enjoyed this wonderful stitch along and learning tidbits of India textile History. I would love to have more in depth session. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I am happy you enjoyed it, there will definitely be more to come 😉❤️
thank you for this inspiration 😘
My pleasure 😊
Love this video xxxxxxx 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
I could listen and watch you all day and never get bored!! This is so lovely! thanks so much for sharing. Hugs,GinaB💕😍
My pleasure and thank you ❤️
Thank you Katherine for another great video. I started it straight away and really enjoyed it 👍x
I am so pleased Angie, I have started stitching an elephant in the same style 😁❤️
@@k3n.clothtales I hope we get to see it when it's finished and maybe a future video too !🤞😄x
@@angiekay9020 absolutely I will share it and maybe a video too 😁♥️
Thanks
Thank you Lesley ♥️
I have several old coins and I’m thinking one of those will be what I use in place of the little mirror. It will be my next page in my stitch book.
I was familiar with that kind of embroidery, because in the 80s in Portugal Indian clothes were “The Fashion” and my mother, who was always a bit of an eccentric (I take after her 😂), loved to buy Indian clothes for her and for me. I had a skirt and blouse with those little mirrors. I loved, loved that outfit and wore it until it was really worn out. So, it’s so nice to learn how those adorable mirrors are stitched in.
Do you know anything about Portuguese embroidery? We have a long tradition of embroidery, being Viana do Castelo, a city in the north, one of the most popular. And there’s also a craft that I would love to learn, which is Renda de Bilros (“renda” means lace) and I wonder if you have ever heard of it.
I actually think the size of the mirror is perfect, because it stands out! The whole piece is beautiful and, of course, inspiring.
I hope you continue to enjoy your days in England 💙🧡💚🩶💜❤️💛🩶🤎🩵🩷♥️🤍
Hello Alexandra, I also have a skirt from a charity shop with bright coloured embroidery and mirrors on but it's not really Indian. I still love to wear it though. I must confess I don't know much about Portuguese embroidery but I will certainly look it up ❤️
I looked it up 😁 the lace looks like bobbin lace, I have seen people making similar here in the UK and also in Bruges in Belgium. The city is beautiful as is the embroidery, I see some similarities in the motifs with the Indian traditions and also South American. ❤️
@@k3n.clothtales I’m glad you liked it 💙💙💙
Your teaching really makes me want to try shisha - thank you so much. FYI - tried tipping you on Ko-fi but couldn’t get it to go through. I’ll try again later -
Thank you Pam, I am sorry you are having trouble on Ko-fi, if I can help at all just send me a message on there. It's so kind of you to try. ❤️
never mind 'people say you shouldn't' - you do you!
Thank you Francesca, I need to take my own advice 😁❤️
I was privileged to go on a textile tour of Gujarat in 2016. Definitely my favourite travel experience ever. I have a collection of shisha that I bought at Bhuj market. You scoop them into a bowl and they sell them by weight. I’m inspired to find them and make a small impression on my lifetime supply. Thanks for another great video.
How wonderful Sandra, to be able to stitch this week's project with actual shisha from Gujarat. ❤️
Threads of identity. Has made me try to find threads of my family identity-Slovak (and recently found out more specifically Carpatho-Rusyn), German and Welsh. Wouldn’t it be fun to do “slow stitch from around the world”.
That is wonderful, yes it would and there is so much rich textile heritage it would take a lifetime ❤️
@@k3n.clothtales for real lol.
Licking threads? I don't believe there is a proven rationale against licking threads, I think it comes from "the etiquette brigade"' who are now negated by the "you do you"' era we currently live in. If we don't do us we leave all our personality out of our creativity and our work would become more homogenized. Also you would never be "allowed"' to stitch a yoghurt pottle circle into your work today. ❣
Cheers Kathryn.
Well said Jenny 😁 no negative Nellie's about the yoghurt lid yet.... ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you. Always wondered how the mirrors were attached. Need to repeat ladder stitch very off. Nest of chain stitches lovely, Need to work on choosing colours that work.
You have said choose light & darks. It's said not to use more than 3 colours? 💖
Traditional is red, gold and green but I have added blue. In many of the images in the books I have looked at, there are multiple colours used. I think they use what they have and what speaks to them ♥️
@@k3n.clothtales Understand.🙏 Wasn't faithful to traditional colours, those I selected not impactful. Started to note the same hue has different tones, saturation, temperature etc. By accident started to note some colours worked well together. Guidance of choosing lights and darks helpful. In general was wondering if there was a formula for colour selection to guarantee impactful colours. Starting to understand basics of colour theory.
Another interesting project! I do especially like the work-around for those of us without easy access to the little mirrors. I am struggling with the ladder stitch. I cannot figure out when to snug up the tension. I did slow video down to 75% and that may help me ultimately. Any hints would be greatly appreciated. Perhaps I am not listening closely enough. Thanks so much! Update - just listened yet again and I know that you say over and over again when to snug it up. I will soldier on....
It's when you insert the needle to make the stitch, wrap the thread under the needle while it is in the cloth, snug up then pull through (but leave a small loop to insert your needle for the next stitch. Hope that helps. It takes a while, I have since done quite a lot more of it and if I don't concentrate, I messaged it up. 😂 But it's so beautiful, it's worth persevering. ❤️
I have shisha mirrors! Took a class with an Indian teacher who lives in UK, a few years ago. I will find her name.
That sounds wonderful Donna, I would love to know her name if you can find it ❤️
@@k3n.clothtales Surjeet Husain I posted in FB group some details.
That’s fabulous🤌🏻
Thank you 😊
Kathryn,
I've licked my thread for over 70+ years and learned that from my mom and her mom. Even in home economics class in the 60's teachers did it while teaching us to thread a needle, for hand stitching or threading our sewing machine. I have a question, Is there some reason that I don't know .... Why I'm not to wet the thread? Have I missed an important point of needle threading?
A few people have said that one 'shouldn't' because it causes the thread to swell and makes it harder to get through the needle. My thinking is that it doesn't have time to swell between the licking and the threading but I was just experimenting, I don't like to dismiss things out of hand. And I think it's necessary with fluffy threads like embroidery floss. I don't think I could stop licking my thread now if I tried 😂❤️
I am half way round a button (using it in place of a shisha) but it keeps sliding out of the grid. I did not quite get the spacing right for a thickish button, so might have to start again. All good practice though, and a distraction from the temperature of 34 C here in sunny Norfolk. 🙂🌞
You could always stitch the button on to secure it, then do the main stitching.
Yes it's been warm here today on the other side of England but I spoke to my daughter and she said it's 40 degrees in Bordeaux and she's indoors with the shutters closed and the fan on. 🙄 Hope you succeed with your button. ❤️
I used a shiny green button and it was a bit tricksy but I found that by having the grid crossbars nearer to the middle of the button it gave a firmer frame, then once I’d pulled them to the side with the stitching it was fine…good luck
Thank you, Alison. I will try that another time.
Question, Kathryn: At 27-28 minutes in, you seem to be stitching right into the shisha (I'm using a yoghurt top... knew they'd be useful for something)... or am I missing something?! Please clarify. How on earth would that work with a button?
Well, I enjoyed the classic combination of colours, and embroidering some folk-style motifs; but I swear I'll never sew on another shisha (or equivalent) again.
You don't stitch through it, just over it to hold it in place. I am sorry it's not for you, we can't all enjoy all the things 😁❤️
It wasn't entirely clear in the video, which is why I asked. It looked like you were putting the needle through the shisha. So that's what my struggle was about. I like the clever technique very much, but it took me over an hour to sew around the "mirror". The stitching itself is fine (I'll send you a photo), but - of course - it made a mess of the centre.
So on the way back from stitching in the cloth, you just hook the thread around the web?
🪜🪩🧵🪡📖♥xo
I just realized that your "ap-PLI-que" is my "AP-pli-que" 🤣
😁 yes, that's how we say it over here 😉❤️
I appreciate that letting the ads run helps you out but this morning an ad lasting 50 minutes came on and I will not let that run and find something else to do for that long, sorry. This is the worst one yet.
I am sorry, that's awful and I have no control, it's ads or no ads. The only thing I can choose is not to have them mid way through (which I don't). I read somewhere that watching for 30 secs counts as a view but I am not sure if that's true. Of course I don't expect you to watch 50 minutes. 🙄♥️♥️♥️