Description
Schwalm Crowns
Luzine Happel
Schwalm Crowns includes line drawn designs and the appropriate charted Cross stitch ornaments on 92 color pages, and 96 different crown designs in 184 variants.
Schwalm Crowns answers and discusses on 13 pages:
- What are crowns?
- Which colors 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.
