Cashel Linen Quantity:14 inch square

Cashel Linen Quantity:14 inch square100% linen with 28 threads per inch in warp and weft, making it perfect for counted work. Cut lengths are 140cm wide.

Instructions on techniques to combine with gold work

The straight blades are particularly good for cutting gold threads as the blades slip in between coils of wire easily and cleanly

brilliant - my favourites

counted satin stitch (where stitches are worked in a repeating pattern to add texture) and eyelets (small decorative holes)

Fly stitch

most are fantastically unrealistic creatures

equipment and tools

and yet the technique can also be beautifully subtle

Pure cream colour

in a beautiful natural shade or white

Silk shading (otherwise known as needle-painting) is the name for creating naturalistic shading and colour blending with simple stitches

This series of Essential Stitch Guides has been produced in close collaboration with the RSN with the aim of providing a set of definitive works on traditional embroidery techniques