Embroidered Half-Curtains on Tied Nets

Content : Lace on tied net is a technique mixing lace and embroidery. It is made in two main steps:
1 – The creation of the net (lace technique), that will be used as a support for the embroidery.
2 – Embroidery by using different stitches, some close to weaving, others giving relief to the creation, etc.
This technique was quite popular in interior decoration in 16th century in France, but due to new petrochemical techniques in textile and also to normalisation, it almost disappeared in the 70s.
Christine Gatelier teaches embroidery on tied net. She offers reader to rediscover this traditional technique. She gives a detailed list of the material needed, the way to realize several sorts of nets, and gives numerous patterns, classified by level of difficulty. For an original and innovative decoration.

1 – Every possible tied net techniques.
2 – More than 20 patterns of half-curtain and interior decoration.
3 – Progressive lessons to be self-reliant more quickly.