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It had to happen sooner or later! After producing a line of superb landmark designs for some of the world's major cities - St Petersburg, New York, London and Amsterdam, Thea Governeur, the renowned Netherlands-based cross-stitch designer, has now announced this superb kit.
Paris is perhaps the world's most romantic city and Thea's evocative design has all the landmarks we have come to know and love: the Louvre, la Defense, Sacre Coeur, Notre Dame, the Arc de Triomphe, the Place de la Concorde, the Alexandre III bridge and of course the Eiffel Tower.
The kit is available in both Aida and Evenweave and its size is 79 x 50 cm (31.1 x 19.7 inch) and we hope to have it in stock in the next few days.
If you're a fan of Thea's city series, then this new addition will make the choice of your next project even harder!
Also newly available from Thea Gouverneur, two stylish designs of traditional Dutch landscapes with windmills, tulip and lavender fields.
Arts and Designs is pleased to announce that we now offer Anchor stranded cotton thread (number 4635) in all 460 colour balanced and co-ordinated shades - and at a good price too!
Stranded cotton thread (also known as embroidery floss) is the workhorse of the cross stitch world. It is made of six strands of cotton with a silky finish and comes in skeins of 8 metres (approximately 26 feet) in length.
One of the most attractive features of cross stitch and embroidery textile art is the brilliance and depth of colour. This is due to the qualities of stranded cotton and gives attractive and eye-catching images with an impact that other media cannot match. With Anchor 4635 stranded cotton, colour fastness is preserved up to 95oC so your work will endure for a very long time.
Anchor is a member of the Coats Crafts group of companies that had its origins in the industrial revolution 250 years ago. It is now one of the world's foremost producers of needlecraft products.
Derwentwater Designs, the Penrith based needlecraft studio, have introduced new designs for Spring 2009, several by Rose Swalwell.
Rose is equally at home designing cross stitch, long stitch or blackwork and her new designs augment her large catalogue of traditional and rural English scenes.
Four long stitch kits by Rose are new to the Seasons in Long Stitch collection - Spring Evening (MLS13), Summer Evening (MLS14), Autumn Evening (MLS15) and Winter Evening (MLS16).
These show pastoral landscapes in the English Lake District and are evocative of tranquility and nostalgia.
In the Wildlife Series, Rose has added a Kingfisher and a Deer. These innovative kits are more interesting for the stitcher in that they combine cross stitch and blackwork techniques on the same piece - the central image is worked in cross stitch and the surrounding area in blackwork using several colours.
Jean Coates has added Daisies (LSD) to her colourful and decorative long stitch collection. These kits use Paternayan wool (a loosely twisted stranded yarn made from 100% wool) on 22 count printed canvas. The effect is an image of dense and lush colour.
New special occasion cards round off the new introductions from Derwentwater.
New Threads (Craft Exhibitions) - Bollington, United Kingdom
Bollington's new art space, The White Gallery is hosting a Contemporary Textile Exhibition as part of the Three Shires Textile Festival which runs from the 4th - 19th July 2009.
The White Gallery is surrounded by mills that once produced cotton and silk, making it the perfect venue for an exhibition of this kind.
Our Textile Heritage (Craft Exhibitions) - Congleton, United Kingdom
An exhibition by Alsager Spinners, Weavers and Dyers exploring our textile heritage. The group will demonstrate how they create handmade yet contemporary textiles using traditional methods to process fibres into fabric and garments.
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