MEZ Floss/Eleonore Gross-Ekowski charts

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Jun 27, 1995, 3:00:00 AM6/27/95

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Yesterday, I rec'd a book "Floral Cross-Stitch" by Eleonore Gross-Ekowski which
I bought to fulfill my obligation to Rodale for the free book they sent me last
summer. This is a combination of two books originally published in German.

The pictures are a lot like the Danish Embroidery of Gerda Bengtstrom (I know I
butchered the spelling) and all charts call for a six-strand floss call MEZ
(conversion charts are included for DMC & J. & P Coats)

I'd really like to do some of these pieces. The book contains roses,
dandelions, spring bulbs and a lot of flowers that acc'd to my boss the
botanist (who you are all sick of hearing about) are more commonly found
in Europe.

Has any body out there ever heard of MEZ floss. Can it be gotten in the US?
Is it more similar to Danish Flower Thread or to DMC?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Susan

Phoebe

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Jun 28, 1995, 3:00:00 AM6/28/95

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Mez is Anchor. I have a shade book from them and on the cover it says
Susan Bates/Anchor as well as MEZ and inside, at the tops of the columns of
threads it has MEZ written.

Phoebe

Figure out how to be a mensch. Then use the knowledge. JHSL

Melinda Coss

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Jun 28, 1995, 3:00:00 AM6/28/95

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Mez Floss is Anchor Stranded Cotton. Melinda Coss

Valerie Higgins

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Jun 30, 1995, 3:00:00 AM6/30/95

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I think MEZ is German, but am not sure. I have some of their sewing
thread and I bought it in Berlin. For what that's worth.

Rosemary I.H. Powell

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Jul 3, 1995, 3:00:00 AM7/3/95

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Quid...@usa.pipeline.com(Phoebe) writes:

> >Yesterday, I rec'd a book "Floral Cross-Stitch" by Eleonore Gross-Ekowski

..> This is a combination of two books originally published in
> German.

charts call for a six-strand floss call > MEZ

> >Has any body out there ever heard of MEZ floss. Can it be gotten in the
> US?
> >Is it more similar to Danish Flower Thread or to DMC?
> >
> >Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Susan
>

> Mez is Anchor. I have a shade book from them and on the cover it says
> Susan Bates/Anchor as well as MEZ and inside, at the tops of the columns
of
> threads it has MEZ written.
>
> Phoebe
>

MEZ was a German firm that had a silk weaving business that was taken over
in the 1930s by J&P Coates, and is now Coates MEZ GMBH; the Anchor trade
mark also belongs to Coates; this involved tale of ownership is told in New
Stitches no 16, in a report of a trip by Mary Hickmott to Germany to visit
the Coates MEZ factories in Freiburg and Kenzingen.

This is fantastic - I have my internet connection at home now, and can sit
and read the news, and get up immediately to check something out instead of
waiting to get home, and ... and ... Yippeee!!!

And if only I could get organised and make a database of all my magazine
articles and charts like all good librarians should, I would not even have
to move from my computer, and my legs would shrivel up and drop off, and ...
what then?... Enough of this, please calm yourelf down! ;-)

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