14th century French Pouch .1 – sneak peek progress .21 – last embroidery added :)

Woooohooooo! The last embroidery added!

The new and also last embroidered section of my 14th century French pouch is finished! What shall I say – I love it!

Tomorrow I can get the silk fabric for the back side, wash it and then start with the finishing – pinning, sewing, finger braiding, tassels,…

…but until then – please enjoy the new progress pic of my recent embroidery progress! 😀

…and some of my personal thoughts concerning this new embroidery section:

As you can see on the picture above, I added an extra embroidered blue section above the basic embroidery design. This section was actually not planned from the beginning. First I wanted to put the lacing through the top part of the basic embroidery design (the 4 sections in red and green underneath).

Therefor I already planned a rather detail free embroidery part above the “heads” of the figures in the top sections. When you take a closer look at the photo on the right side you will see that the sections on top and bottom are actually the same size but the figures in the top sections are a little bit smaller then the figures in the bottom sections. There is about 1cm of a “detail free zone” above the figures in the top section.

Btw. I am here already differing from the extant pouch on which my design is based upon, where the lacing also goes through the figures and their outlines.

After completing the small pouch for the 9th birthday raffle I already had an idea of how the finished pouch might look like when it is closed. When my customer decided that he would like blue for the hood, a color that was not yet present in the embroidery, I took the chance and proposed to add an extra section in the top part for the lacing.

This new section has two main benefits:
The first benefit is that this new section adds another blue section to the embroidery and the hood is not the only blue section in my embroidery anymore.
In my opinion not only the basic design of an embroidery is important. I think that also the color design of an embroidery is very important and should be as balanced as possible.

The second benefit is that this new section takes the lacing to a “higher place”/section. That means that more details of the embroidery will be visible while the pouch is closed and in use.

The further away the figures are from the lacing and its folds, the higher the chance gets that their details will be fully visible. As you can see on the picture of the small embroidered 14th century pouch for the blog birthday raffle on the left side. For example – just imagine how the deer on the pouch on the left side would look like if the lacing would be about 1cm deeper.

…and well, last but not least – the third benefit is that I was already not very happy to go with the lacing through the top part of my embroidery design. The new blue hood gave me a good excuse to take the lacing to a “higher place” and out of my “basic embroidery” – but “pssssssst” – don’t tell anyone… 😉

PS.: You can find more postings with progress pictures of this 14th century French pouch in my Category: 14th century French Pouch