July 31, 2017
Embroidery Archeology: Machine or Tambour, the Back and Layering
The last time we visited my Embroidery Archeology project, it was all about preliminaries – the things you should do before delving into the … uh… destruction? (for lack of a better word!) of an old piece of embroidery like this.
Now, now, before you balk! I’m not destroying it. I’m doing my best to conserve every conservable part of it. As I explained in the initial backstory – which you can read here – my primary goal is to retrieve the figure embroidery from the piece, and salvage those so that they can be used on real vestments.
If possible, I also plan to salvage some of the floral elements, though for what use, I’m not sure yet!
With the preliminaries out of the way, it was time to take the piece apart.
