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Update on the Heirloom Sewing piece

Regurg: The exquisite smocking piece at the MO state fair that won best in show (

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).Okay, I finally tracked down the craftsman, and this is what she said she used:

"The front panel was embroidered with padded satin stitch, shadow work embroidery, applique cord, fil tire, satin trailing and bullion roses...The top of the skirt was smocked."

I've invited her and her gang here to post. I hope they will be welcome if they do.

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lizard-gumbo
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Lucille

Probably because my pictures were crappy. :)

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lizard-gumbo

So, we pretty much guessed correctly except we missed the fil tire, which is a drawn fabric technique also called punch stitch or mock f***ot. Anyone able, there's a little accent mark over the "e". Thanks for tracking this down. We used to get the occasional heirloom sewer, but they have huge followings on Delphi, Yahoo and Sewing World, so we don't see them much anymore.

I can find the applique cord (looks like chain stitch with a large thread), but for the life of me can't find the punch stitch. :-)

Dianne

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Dianne Lewandowski

Thanks Dianne, I never heard of that before. Faggoting I know but I never heard of fil tire before. Lucille

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Lucille

It's "mock" faggoting. It's worked horizontally across each row in a given area, then when the entire area is worked horizontally, it's worked vertically to create the holes. The resultant look is a bit like antique bristol board. Fil Tire is just the "la de dah" French term. Heirloom sewers also like to say "Fil Turc" rather than 3-sided stitch. :-)

Dianne

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Dianne Lewandowski

LOL, I did find one example and have now figured out the centre wasn't really aida, and that must be the fil tire.

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think I found it on the orginal dress, though it's really too fuzzyto tell. Below the 'cross ribbons' and above the monogram there isone ribbon in the centre that crosses over itself (like a breastcancer ribbon). The centre of that looks fuzzy, as if it's not plainfabric. Though it seems odd that would be done there and no whereelse.

Tara

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Tara D

Yep. That pillow center is typical of the genre.

By the way, for anyone following this conversation, the stitches look like this:

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On fine fabrics like batiste, it would be wrap twice over 10 threads of the ground, go forward (under) 10, wrap twice over 10, etc. At the end of the row, turn the work and begin again. Keep going in this direction row after row until the area is filled. Then turn the work 90-degrees and do the same thing.

It's really very, very simple to do and was a common all over background stitch in times past rather than Russian ground or four-sided stitch.

Dianne

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Dianne Lewandowski

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