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£500.00
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RSN Friends - Priority Booking is Open This class is currently available for Priority Booking by RSN Friends only. General booking opens for all on Sunday 5 April 2026.
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This design is inspired by historical examples of both Blackwork and Jacobean Crewelwork. For the people of the Renaissance period flowers often carried certain meaning and were used to symbolise virtues including love, strength, innocence, and patience to name a few. As such, clothing and embroidery of the time often featured these flowers as motifs, usually surrounded and linked together by coiling vines and stems. These motifs can be seen in the counted Blackwork style popularised during the reign of Henry VIII, and then continued to be used carrying into the early Jacobean period, although stitched in a different technique (in the later Jacobean period the motifs would become a little more fanciful and stylised)
This design takes some of the most common floral motifs found in traditional English Blackwork and Jacobean Crewelwork and ties the two techniques together. Working the surface stitches commonly found in Crewelwork, using a grey-scale palate with a touch of Gold reminiscent of Blackwork.
The design is worked in stranded cotton, accented with Gold threads including Smooth Purl, Bright check, Spangles and Japanese Passing, on a white Silk Dupion. Students will learn the Goldwork techniques Chipping, Italian shaded couching, and Cutwork, in addition to a wide variety of surface stitches including Padded Satin, Laid stitch, Portuguese Knotted Stem stitch, Long and Short and Trellis. The finished design measures approximately 16x16cm (6x6inches).
The class will be split over ten evening sessions, a week apart, to allow for time to stitch at your own pace in between.
Students will need to have their own 10-inch hoop or similar sized slate frame, a basic embroidery kit, a small ruler, and a pencil and paper in case you wish to take notes.
Your Zoom Link
The Zoom link for this online class will be included in your order confirmation email. If you do not receive it, please check your junk mail to see if it is there and if you still do not have it then please email [email protected].
Class Recording
This class will be recorded via Zoom, and you will be provided with access to the recording for a period of 30 days from the end of the class. The recording will then be deleted. Our Online Class recording policy can be found here. By attending this class you give your consent for the class to be recorded.
RSN Stitch Bank
You can explore many more stitches in the RSN Stitch Bank.
Attendees Outside the UK
This is an online class via Zoom scheduled in UK local time. If you are outside of the UK please check your local time, particularly if your location changes to/from Daylight Savings Time on a different schedule to the UK during October/November and March/April. To check and convert times please visit TimeAndDate.com. We cannot be held responsible for incorrect time attendance. Thank you.
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RSN Friends – Priority Booking is Open This class is currently available for Priority Booking by RSN Friends only. General booking opens for all on Sunday 5 April 2026.
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This design is inspired by historical examples of both Blackwork and Jacobean Crewelwork. For the people of the Renaissance period flowers often carried certain meaning and were used to symbolise virtues including love, strength, innocence, and patience to name a few. As such, clothing and embroidery of the time often featured these flowers as motifs, usually surrounded and linked together by coiling vines and stems. These motifs can be seen in the counted Blackwork style popularised during the reign of Henry VIII, and then continued to be used carrying into the early Jacobean period, although stitched in a different technique (in the later Jacobean period the motifs would become a little more fanciful and stylised)
This design takes some of the most common floral motifs found in traditional English Blackwork and Jacobean Crewelwork and ties the two techniques together. Working the surface stitches commonly found in Crewelwork, using a grey-scale palate with a touch of Gold reminiscent of Blackwork.
The design is worked in stranded cotton, accented with Gold threads including Smooth Purl, Bright check, Spangles and Japanese Passing, on a white Silk Dupion. Students will learn the Goldwork techniques Chipping, Italian shaded couching, and Cutwork, in addition to a wide variety of surface stitches including Padded Satin, Laid stitch, Portuguese Knotted Stem stitch, Long and Short and Trellis. The finished design measures approximately 16x16cm (6x6inches).
The class will be split over ten evening sessions, a week apart, to allow for time to stitch at your own pace in between.
Students will need to have their own 10-inch hoop or similar sized slate frame, a basic embroidery kit, a small ruler, and a pencil and paper in case you wish to take notes.
Your Zoom Link
The Zoom link for this online class will be included in your order confirmation email. If you do not receive it, please check your junk mail to see if it is there and if you still do not have it then please email [email protected].
Class Recording
This class will be recorded via Zoom, and you will be provided with access to the recording for a period of 30 days from the end of the class. The recording will then be deleted. Our Online Class recording policy can be found here. By attending this class you give your consent for the class to be recorded.
RSN Stitch Bank
You can explore many more stitches in the RSN Stitch Bank.
Attendees Outside the UK
This is an online class via Zoom scheduled in UK local time. If you are outside of the UK please check your local time, particularly if your location changes to/from Daylight Savings Time on a different schedule to the UK during October/November and March/April. To check and convert times please visit TimeAndDate.com. We cannot be held responsible for incorrect time attendance. Thank you.