Plaited Braid Stitch - Jacobean Hand Embroidery

Jacobean Double Plaited Braid Stitch - Hand Embroidery instructional video. Although I am a left-handed stitcher, you can see from this video the important stages in the construction of the stitch, crucially how to begin the stitch, how to look for the 'cross shape of the previous half of the stitch and how to keep the working thread out of the way while you locate the two lower 'feet' of the previous stitch to keep the woven surface structure of this classic design, in what appears to be 2 adjascent rows of 'purl stitches'. I've been promising on my blog to upload this film for ages. Hope its clear, you like it and its not too long.. Comments welcome. Remember, its actually a fast stitch to work and interesting plus it works well round curves. You can see examples of it produced in gold thread at the V&A Museum in London on Elizabethan sweetbags. It was a very popular stitch then.
N.B. Sorry about my little slip of the tongue right at the beginning....lol (you couldn't plan a better Fraudian slip, could you?). Happy stitching !! I'll be posting more embroidery videos - only difficult stitches though...
(if you're interested, the other example of hand stitching on my hoop here is 'Trellis' stitch, hope to do a video of that one soon).

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• hand embroidery
• instructional
• crafts
• Elizabethan
• Jacobean
• stitches
• braid
• double-plaited
• left-handed

[BlessedDove]

thanks for sharing. what kind of yarn / floss are you using?

[ketchupwitheverythin]

@BlessedDove Thanks Blessed. The yarn is just a thick cotton variety for crochet or knitting. Not my favourite for making things but to make the video easier to see, I think it was well suited. I believe you left a comment on another video too? I'm going over there to reply to that.

[samisaturn33]

i am a textlies student and this has been helpful thank you.

[ketchupwitheverythin]

@samisaturn33 Thanks a lot. This not the way they did it in Elizabethan times, however, its the way we were told it was done when the author Mrs Christie gave us her 'version' in 1920. Please see other video - aimed at Metal Thread. If you are further interested in the subject, get a good close up of historic examples and count the 'under & overs'. I am afraid you will notice just how wrong Mrs Christie was. But bless her anyway for having the guts to give it a try.

regards !

[hentales]

Will do. Any chance you can figure out how to video this for right handed folk?

Leticia

[ketchupwitheverythin]

@hentales I have posted the right-handed version on here too, now.

[elcarlosbaby1]

Lol I was gonna try to do that with my gfs name on a teddy lol but that's too complicated !!:/ does anyone of u know a website where the do that on teddy bears for money? Lol I can't do that do I'll just pay to get it done bahahahaha what? I'm a guy inlove :P but love has limits and I can't do what this guy is doing lol:p nice vid btw lol

[bass109]

repent to Jesus! pray to Jesus everyday! Jesus loves all, love you all

[ketchupwitheverythin]

@tabitha8xxx Hi, this isn't the easiest way to do this stitch. There is another version that's better suited to metal thread, see my channel page

beth

[tabitha8xxx]

You are amazing! and the quality and zoom is first class. Thank you so so much. I will be for sure watching more of your videos. I wish you had all the stitches shown this way. Luv.

[ketchupwitheverythin]

Hi all! I think I'm going to post a video of this stitch for righthanded people afterall.

This version is known as Mrs Archibald Christie's version and I like that author and all she has done for embroidery, so I'm gonna get my head round doing it righthanded way soon. (Not within the next 2 weeks, maybe after this coming Christmas). Thanks for rating!