What Are Some Stumpwork Embroidery Design Projects?
- Embroider your own projects.embroidery 2 image by Kostyantyn Ivanyshen from Fotolia.com
Stumpwork embroidery is the name given to work in which the finished image contains raised or three-dimensional aspects. Stumpwork embroidery is rooted in designs done in the 17th century in England and it remains a widely practiced craft. Although many designs and projects can be found online, you can create your own projects. - Whatever image you wish to embroider using stumpwork techniques can be mounted on cardboard and framed. With stumpwork, wire, beads and padding are among the methods used to create three-dimensional work.
Turn a famous painting into a stumpwork embroidery project. Use a portrait and let the clothing billow from the picture. Popular stumpwork designs are of a girl in an old fashioned dress in which the skirt can be lifted and the lacy pantaloons underneath seen. Let the brims of hats actually shade the embroidered faces. - A project that has been used for many years is an embroidered box. Start with a cloth-covered box and do the raised embroidery directly onto the box's lids and sides (if desired). Consider designs such as raised holly leaves with round bead berries. Alternatively, you can find wooden boxes in craft stores with a hole in the lid that is used for inserting embroidered pieces. For this, you simply embroider a piece of fabric and secure the fabric over padding placed in the lid's hole.
- For a more ambitious project, consider stumpwork embroidery on fabric that will cover a wall like wall paper. For a less ambitious venture, start with a piece of patterned fabric (or one with a repeating image). Ladies on benches or riding in horse-drawn carriages provides a suitable image. Insert padding underneath the printed images, fluffing out skirts and giving horses dimension. Add to this embroidered details, such as bouquets of flowers, or embroider the flowers on the hats. Do as much to the patterned print as desired and stretch the fabric over the wall. Designs like this are used when people want the wall covering to match furniture.
