Berlin wool

Original charted Berlin wool work patterns remain available in a number of books.

Berlin wool work is a style of embroidery similar to today's needlepoint.

Designs for articles were often taken from designs of Berlin wool work.

Canvas is a popular base fabric for embroidery such as cross-stitch and Berlin wool work.

Perhaps he has seen the Berlin Wool.

However the house fell into disrepair when Hutton's Berlin wool business started to lose money.

The first Berlin wool patterns were printed in black and white on grid paper and then hand-coloured.

Berlin wool work patterns were first published in Berlin, Germany, early in the 19th century.

These are particularly suited to pictorial rather than geometric designs such as those deriving from the Berlin wool work craze of the early 19th century.

Canvas work in cross stitch became popular again in the mid-19th century with the Berlin wool work craze.

He sent Ned with his compliments and might he come with Mama's Berlin wool after dinner.

Lucerne reminded him of wax flowers under glass cases and cuckoo clocks and fancy-work in Berlin wool.

The new fashion, using printed patterns and coloured tapestry wools imported from Berlin, was called Berlin wool work.

Of special interest is its large costume and embroidery collection, including examples of Ayrshire embroidery and Berlin wool work.

Berlin wool work and similar petit point stitchery resembles the heavily shaded, opulent styles of cross-stitch, and sometimes also used charted patterns on paper.

In the late 1880s, the demand for Berlin wool work decreased dramatically, largely because the tastes had changed, but Berlin work publishers failed to accommodate new tastes.

CanvasWork was represented with Bargello, Berlin Wool Work, Needlepoint, Decorative Canvas and Free style pieces.

Multicoloured, shaded, painting-like patterns as we know them today are a fairly modern development, deriving from similar shaded patterns of Berlin wool work of the mid-nineteenth century.

In 1751 the Berlin wool manufacturer Wilhelm Caspar Wegely was granted the royal privilege to set up a porcelain manufactory in Berlin.

Berlin wool work designs are still popular in trammed needlepoint canvases, printed canvas needlepoint kits and can be found as digitized charts on needlework enthusiasts' websites.

The development of needlepoint was influenced in the 17th century by Bargello, and by shaded Berlin wool work in brightly colored wool yarn in the 19th century.

Patterns for tiled carpets made of a number of squares, called Berlin wool work, were introduced in Germany in 1804, and became extremely popular in England in the 1830s.

La, Mr Richards bach," says he, when the maintop begins to tumble about our ears, tearing down through the quarter-deck splinter-netting like so much Berlin wool, "I don't know what to do.

Go for a scone and a bygone to Leicestershire County Council's Snibston Discovery Park and discover why a 19th century husband complained he hated the very name of Berlin Wool.

And now, in ghostly letters on all the dead walls of this dead town, I read thy honoured name, and find that thy Last Supper, worked in Berlin Wool, invites inspection as a powerful excitement!