If you’re looking for more hand embroidery designs, feel free to stop by my Embroidery Pattern Index here on Needle ‘n Thread! Needle ‘n Thread News If you choose “100%” or “actual size” in your printer dialogue box, the design should print at about 4″ high and just over 2″ wide. If you’d like to download it, use the link below to open the PDF and save it to your computer. I hope that you can find a use for this little embroidery design, since there’s a fair chance that I’m not going to be able to touch it anytime soon! You can do a lot with a simple design like this! Downloadable PDF This small stylized floral spray could be the subject of a study in whitework, in goldwork, in blackwork, in crewel work – or just in simple surface embroidery. Simple designs like this are excellent fodder for trying out techniques. Some are really grand, but others – like this floral element – are smaller and simpler and so very perfect for interpreting into all kinds of embroidery techniques. These are the types of designs that might be embroidered on household goods, like linens or curtains or pillow covers and the like. Many of the designs include small elements in large repeats. In it, DMC offered the embroiderer a whole series of lovely designs that could be enlarged into rather grand embroideries.
This design comes from La Borderie au Passé, which is perhaps one of my favorite Dillmont collections.
By adapting old designs, or doodling my own new designs, or maybe expanding a little clip out of a larger design from an old publication, I’ve amassed quite a few usable smalls. I’ve been drawn to small elements to embroider, and I’ve built up quite a collection of possibilities for future projects. Over the years, I’ve adapted many designs from these books that are now in the public domain, adding my own details and turning them into easily printable vector files to use for hand embroidery.įor the past year, I’ve been on a “smalls” kick. There’s nothing like browsing through old treasures to get the juices flowing! I rely on old books for inspiration and ideas, especially when my mind gets stuck. If you’ve followed along here on Needle ‘n Thread for years, you know that I have quite a collection of old embroidery books and that I like the play with old designs.
I don’t normally pop in on you on a Saturday, but I wanted to share with you a little floral embroidery pattern that I recently adapted from one of the old Therese Dillmont DMC books.
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