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Schwalm Crowns By Luzine Happel. ncluding line drawn designs and the appropriate charted Cross stitch ornaments
- Self-published 2013
- Text: French
- 92 pages, colour
- Plastic comb binding
- 96 different crown designs in 184 variants
This book answers all of these questions in detail
- What are crowns?
- Which colours do crowns have?
- Where to place crowns?
- How to get the design onto the fabric?
- How to embroider crowns?
- How to work baskets?
- How to embroider birds?
- How to arrange Cross stitch patterns below crowns?
- What are double crowns
- Materials
- Notes
there are 8 pages of charted Cross stitch ornaments and Cross stitch letters and numbers, which were worked in connection with crowns;
and there are 70 pages containing 96 different embroidered crowns – some small, many medium and some corner crowns – in all 184 design variations.
With Schwalm crowns the Schwalm country women “crowned” their splendid Whitework. Usually the name of the owner, and sometimes the year, was also embroidered on the linen.
Crowns are about palm-size, and often the overall shape is that of a half circle containing variants of tree-of-life or triple-shoot designs. They are usually densely ornamented. The many different designs are of extraordinary creativity and show a strong sense of aesthetics. There are crowns with “heavy” as well as filigree elements; some crowns are worked with a single design element only, and others contain all the typical Schwalm crown motifs.
The beautiful crown embroidery can, indeed, be seen in the museums of the Schwalm, but up to now there has been no published collection of design drawings. I believe the enormous treasure bequeathed to us is too valuable to let slide into obscurity. Not only are crowns too interesting and too attractive, but they also have the right to exist today alongside the Schwalm Whitework that is enjoying a resurgence. Thus, if one invests many, many hours stitching the Whitework, is it not right that that work should be “crowned”? At very least, the initials of the embroiderer, as well as the year, are worth noting.