#tapestry wool

I bought this vintage Royal Paris Collection D’Art tapestry canvas a year ago & just recently spent the $$$ for the wool. I enjoy doing tapestry using DMC wool since wool tends to hold colour vibrancy really well which is what I want in a tapestry. Just this flower and the surrounding leaves represents about 3 weeks of work.

Vintage mountain embroidery kit. Almost done. Up close french knots.

Sunflower tapestry WIP. I focused on getting the 3rd sunflower and the bottom leaves completed. This represents approximately 2 weeks work.

I’m so chuffed with how this turned out & I have to say that I’m definitely going to be steaming every tapestry I completed from now on! Steaming really helped to even out the stitches and fluff out those stitches that got a little twisted during the make.

Sunflower tapestry WIP. The canvas wasn’t rolling smoothly because of the height difference between the stitched and unstitched areas. So I went back and started filling in all the background areas I’d skipped over. To say doing large blocks of a single colour is incredibly boring is an understatement.

My wool threads came in & I’ve started on the bunny tapestry - the photos represent a weeks worth of work, doing a little before/after dinner daily. This is a vintage tapestry by french company D’Art which I scored partially completed on ebay. I ripped all the old, musty threads off to start fresh with new wool.

Another yellow flower

Wool woven picot flower