I have some weird and wonderful things in my stash, and I was hunting for some gold thread I had to experiment plying with, when I came across a shoebox given to me by a friend. Inside this shoebox were lots of threads wound onto bobbins and these needles that looked like medieval torture tools. Curiosity got the better of me and I looked up the name of the thread Bunka, turns out is a Japanese type of embroidery. Now I'm not the sewing type of girl, I don't like doing embroidery the closest I have done would be cross-stitch, and that was pretty basic, my sister on the other hand was a queen at cross stitch and I have some beautiful cross-stitch that she had done.
The reason I brought this up was because the thread that is used in Bunka is a chain like thread and you sort of pull on the end of the thread and it unravels like knitting and I think would be good for plying with my yarn that I have on the bobbin at present without adding thickness to the yarn. I'm not sure what to do about the needles I would like to pass them on to someone who has a use for them but I don't know if this type of embroidery is done any more.
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Crap! Just tried to leave a (lengthy!) comment, and got dumped out to Google. GRrrrrrrrr.
Anyhow, that's a way cool idea you've got about using the thread plied with your wool. Should give a very interesting dimension and interest -- :D
As for the nasty-looking tools, perhaps someone on Y or rcty would know if anyone does this form of embroidery anymore. Maybe Mirjam would know -- she seems to have her finger on the pulse of anything related to fiberarts.
HUGS!
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