Mary Queen of Scots
By marie2052
@marie2052 (3691)
United States
August 17, 2011 10:23pm CST
While reading responses from my last discussion here on cross stitch, she had read about Mary Queen of Scots that also did needlework.
As I love learning myself, I took off to see what I could bring back to our happy stitchers here.
While I will give you the main site there is a panel to your left that you can scroll down to Embroidery click and will bring up Mary's history on stitching and that you will see she spent quite a few years in prison.
You will also be able to view some of her panels that she did and if you like browse through the pictures and they will explain why she used some of the ideas for making a panel.
THanks to the Mylotter that brought this to my attention, and hope she sees this and enjoys what I was able to unearth on Queen Mary and her stitchery.
http://www.marie-stuart.co.uk/index.htm
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@marie2052 (3691)
• United States
19 Aug 11
As far as I can tell by the pictures the satin stitch comes to mind.
On Anne Boylen's hers looks like blackwork.
She may have learned to stitch since Catherine of Aragon who was King Henry's first wife brought her traditions of stitchery to England when she married.
Anne Boylen was one of her maids. King Henry brought her to the court when he was smitten with her, and proceeded to "give her as a gift to his wife"
So I am assuming the Queen taught her as she did all her ladies in waiting.
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@marie2052 (3691)
• United States
22 Aug 11
The brillance of these women and to think we have to have a pattern today.
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@cerebellum (3863)
• United States
20 Aug 11
To complete so many pieces without a pattern, she must have been in prison for a long time! I would never even attempt anything without a pattern, but at that time it would have been the norm.
@cerebellum (3863)
• United States
23 Aug 11
If I tried anything without a pattern, it would come out looking abstract.
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@marie2052 (3691)
• United States
22 Aug 11
When the colonists come to America it was normal for a girl to make a ABC Sampler and then put any kind of decoration around it. There were no patterns so they would get ideas of things in their mind and wind up figuring out how to stitch.
A flower, a acorn, different things they would see wound up being stitched.
Still amazes me when I find out more about it.
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@francesca5 (1344)
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30 Aug 11
hello marie,
i confess it was me who mentioned mary queen of scots. the link you have given shows some lovely examples of her work, i remember reading somewhere that she had done it, but i have never seen any examples of her work so its really interesting to see.
i love looking at cross stitch and embroidery, i don't really have enough patience to do it myself though, i do try, but i never finish anything, but i think its beautiful to look at, and i do admire all of you who actually manage to complete things.
thanks for the discussion, her work is lovely, and very interesting. i especially love the pheonix, next time i try to start an embroidery project i might try borrowing that as an idea, but don't hold your breath waiting to hear about its completion!
