Delurking - Flower Thread?
Jill Coelho
that's why. This group is great. My very favorite is the cement animals
thread, which nearly killed me.
I'm trying to find sources/conversion charts for Danish
Flower Thread. I'm a very new stitcher who fell in love with Gerda
Bengtsson's designs. When I went looking for the thread, I discovered
how hard it is to find. Art of the Needle in Whitefish Bay, WI is
ordering some for me, but they just told me that the company has been
bought by a German firm and nobody knows what will happen next...
Has anyone had experience with Flower Thread, or knows some useful
conversions if all else fails? It's so frustrating to have fallen in
love with something that I won't be able to keep on doing!
Thanks
Jill Coelho
win...@prairienet.org
as many different colors as possible of Ginnie Thompson Flower
Thread years ago - at least 5 - when the shop I then frequented
was switching over to DMC Flower Thread. The shop owner threw in
the swatch card for free. So I have all this flower thread, and
I stitched the house sampler from CS&CC (palette stitchery) -
probably ca. 1988 issue? - and enjoyed working with it.
Now I've found some Danish Handcraft Guild pattern books
at the library, and I'm doing an Ida Winckler (no relation)
design of angels with instruments on 25 ct. linen for a
Christmas banner. I still like the GT thread, but I don't
think it's available anymore. I just matched the colors of
the picture in the book to the colors on my swatch card as
best I could, and I'm happy with the results. DMC and Anchor
Flower thread seem to be fairly widely available, couldn't
you use those?
Kate in IL
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Deborah L. McMahon
: design of angels with instruments on 25 ct. linen for a
: Christmas banner. I still like the GT thread, but I don't
: think it's available anymore.
Ginnie Thompson flower thread is available. I just read about
it. I believe that it is no longer sold by Ginnie Thompson, but
rather by her son-in-law under another company name. I'll dig up
the article and post the info on Monday.
Debi Mc
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Jill Coelho
You confirmed what the people at Art of the Needle in Whitefish
Bay told me, that DMC flower thread just isn't the same. They're hoping
that the sale to the German firm won't mean the end of the thread or that
the price will go so high distributors in this country won't be willing to
risk stocking it and not selling it.
Thanks.
Jill Coelho
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CAWaldo (caw...@aol.com) wrote: : Jill:
: DMC has a conversion chart for their own flower thread, and any store that
: sells it should have the chart. Be aware, of course, that their flower
: thread doesn't come in as many colors as their regular floss, so you'd
: have to make do with "close but not exact" matches.
: I did a huge colonial sampler years ago with Danish Flower Thread. It
: remains one of my most favorite pieces ever. I have bought and worked
: with DMC flower thread, and I have to tell you that I just don't like it
: anywhere near as much as the Danish. DMC's seems thinner to me, without
: the coverage that the Danish had. I've tried to work with DMC's, but find
: that the results disappoint. May I suggest that you check the FAQ to find
: some names of mail order places or maybe even dealers nearer to you?
: Good luck!
: Chris
CAWaldo
sc...@cc.memphis.edu
Port Jefferson, NY 11777. I don't work for them or own any part of the
business. It is where I order my DFT for about 90 cents I think a skein.
Might be a dollar by now cause I ordered mine several months ago. They ship
slowly though so be warned. Susan Cohn
JAlbert912
Coelho) writes:
>
>You confirmed what the people at Art of the Needle in Whitefish
>Bay told me, that DMC flower thread just isn't the same. They're hoping
>that the sale to the German firm won't mean the end of the thread or that
>t
Did I miss something? Was DMC sold? Could this be a reason there has
been such a mess-up in changing colors?
Judi
Jill Coelho
The company that was being sold is the one that makes Danish Flower
Thread -- and no one knows what will happen next. DMC also
has flower thread, but what I heard is that it isn't as good (and of
course the colors aren't the same, so patterns would need conversion or
matching, etc., etc.)
Sorry my follow-up wasn't clear. I'm still learning how to post
messages.
Jill
JAlbert912 (jalbe...@aol.com) wrote:
: In article <42t6nu$9...@decaxp.harvard.edu>, jco...@fas.harvard.edu (Jill
Constance LaLena
The Danish Handcraft guild developed Flower Thread from a tablecloth woven and
embroidered by one of their early designers, Else Johnsen. Else wove the
fabric for the tablecloth, then embroidered it with the same yarn dyed in
various soft colors. This weaving yarn became the basis of today's Danish
Flower Thread. The colors were created by Einar Hansen, a master dyer in
cooperation with the Guild's artists, over 50 years ago. He was an expert at
dyeing with plants and was able to duplicate exactly the colors which were
characteristic of the Danish Peasant textiles of the last century. Although
synthetically dyed, the thread closely resembles Hansen's natural colors.
Gerda Bengtsson, one of the Danish Handcraft Guild's most famous artists, used
this thread for many of her designs, working with Hansen to develop the color
palette she needed. Eventually the thread, which became so famous in Gerda
Bengtsson's flower designs, became known as Danish Flower Thread.
The preceeding information is taken from a brochure from the Danish Handcraft
Guild.
Ginnie Thompson is generally credited with the "modern" introduction of
counted cross stitch to North America. She found it difficult to obtain a
supply of the Danish Flower Thread in sufficient quantities for the American
Market, so she developed her own thread "Ginnie Thompson Flower Thread". It
is this thread company which, I believe, has recently been sold; their goal is
to increase distribution.
The original Danish Flower Thread, is more matte finished and gives better
coverage single-stranded on 14 or 18 count than the DMC. The U.S. distributor
for Danish Flower Thread is:
Crown Needlearts
13062 W. LaSalle Circle
Lakewood, CO 80228
(303) 986-8822
They should be able to direct you to retail stores that stock it.
I am sorry I do not have a current address for the distributor of the Ginnie
Thompson Flower Thread.
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