Swedish Tvistsom Embroidery

Swedish Tvistsom Embroidery by Pamela Miller Ness. Tvistsom is an attractive form of folk embroidery practiced in Sweeden since the seventeenth century. It has a texture and tightness that makes it endurable and higly functional. It can be worked in wool on evenweave cotton canvas, or in linen thread on evenweave fabric with the background left unworked. The designs can be used on clothing, table linen, handbags, pillows, pictures, ornaments, upholstery etc. There are 46 foolproof charted designs with everything you need to know to get started, color schemes, selecting materials, texturing techniques, computing the finishes size and how to achieve "tweeding".