{"id":2674,"date":"2014-03-04T11:18:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T16:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2014-03-04T11:18:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T16:18:23","slug":"the-ghiordes-knot-stitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=2674","title":{"rendered":"The Ghiordes Knot Stitch"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was digging around looking for the name of and\u00a0 basic working instruction for a loopy stitch I\u00a0used in the ’80’s but never since.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve seen it or something like it so effectively used in Debbie Lydon’s <\/span><\/a><\/span>works, and some other artists’ works.\u00a0 Despite fiddling with a needle and thread I’d forgotten how I did it, and looked around.\u00a0 First, the meagre offerings on my bookcase; I have far more comprehensive books in my collection in Australia,\u00a0 and now there is so much online, but I take these along to one of the workshops I teach.\u00a0 They’re well travelled and had a lot of use since I bought them in the late 70’s.\u00a0 But the stitch wasn’t there.\u00a0 However, in the front of each one I found this wonderful\u00a0introductory quote:\u00a0 “Free Style Embroidery – The most popular type of embroidery is Free Style Embroidery. i.e., embroideries which are worked over a traced of hot-iron transfer design of from a stamped linen.”\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/span>Goodness – the last traced linen embroidered doily I did was at age 12-13 in the late ’50’s, hand crocheted edge and all.\u00a0 I still have it and will phoograph and show it one day.<\/p>\n

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After amuch online searching I\u00a0found that\u00a0what I was looking for\u00a0is the Ghiordes Knot<\/em><\/span> – check out these images<\/span><\/a><\/span> for a feast of potential including easy to follow step by step instruction. \u00a0Images include\u00a0a very few\u00a0from free spirits, but mostly carefully controlled execution… as in this next link,\u00a0containing perhaps the clearest basic step-by-step\u00a0instruction in an article on\u00a0the American\u00a0 Needlepoint Guild’s Stitch of The Month<\/span><\/a> back in August 2006.\u00a0 Naturally, for a guild,\u00a0 it’s very precise and correct, and\u00a0from the point of doing it on canvas and eventually cutting the loops once they’re all in place…. the equivalent to the ‘free style embroidery’ on linen !<\/p>\n

I did masses of uncut loops, aka ghiordes knots apparently,\u00a0c. 1986 in a piece for an exhibition of my creative embroidery.\u00a0 Of\u00a0course, I don’t have an image within reach,\u00a0 and indeed I’m wondering if I do have an image anywhere\u00a0– well, surely ….\u00a0\u00a0and that’s one more\u00a0thing I’ll have to check next time I’m in my Aus sewing room, while photographing the last traced design doily I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was digging around looking for the name of and\u00a0 basic working instruction for a loopy stitch I\u00a0used in the ’80’s but never since.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve seen it or something like it so effectively used in Debbie Lydon’s works, and some other artists’ works.\u00a0 Despite fiddling with a needle and thread I’d forgotten how I did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-H8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2683,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions\/2683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}