Punched Paper card
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O-YS003 Punched paper card partially embroidered – peach, apple, strawberries on plate
Punched paper cardboard, with an embroidery pattern printed on it and already partially embroidered. No publishers mark or date. A step up from the outline pre-punched embroidery cards for kindergarten children. Some stitch placement suggestions, otherwise all left to the embroiderer. Punched paper was a popular embroidery ground, as it wouldn’t deform when stitches were pulled too tight. Paper was also sold under the name of Toilecrosse.
Scanned and edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
There are at least three pattern books for this punched paper embroidery. One has already been published in our catalog, L-SB002 Colored Designs for Toilecrosse.
There is also a spot sampler in our backlog, stitched together from little pieces of punched paper each with a motif embroidered on it.
The German Haussegen or House Blessing framed pictures are also mostly made on punched paper, with silver foil as background and glued-on celluloid angels or other religious pictures. There’s one in the German museum in Berlin that is not a house blessing at all, but says Red Front! You have the power in your hands – if you only are united!, together with red flags and a photograph of a person not known to me. It was made around WW1, an interesting example of the various uses of this type of embroidery. This is a photo of a part of that item:
