Restore your own Ecce Homo in cross stitch!

Instruction:

Pick an antique or heirloom cross stitch work or other textile (the valuable the better, preferably religious.) Follow the pattern and cover it with cross stitch embroidery.

 There you go!

Chiné à la branche

V&A Museum, Sack back gown c. 1760

Kyoto Costume Institute, Sack back gown c. 1765

Trousers, modern, second hand. 60% polyester and 40% silk. The picture is sharp, the pattern is not.

1810 - The Original - The Photoshopped

 

The final picture is somewhat missing.

1778 - The Oringinal - The Photoshopped - The Real

Hel 1300-2012-1927

You see a story in there?

At least there's 12 layers of linen and some design fails.

First tablet woven belt since 2006

I bought cool new horn tablets from Grunwald and got inspiration to weave for the first time in years.

Weird German intruction (http://www.b-oberholz.de/editor/druckansicht.php?id=841) of Birka pattern and great brief advice from M and there we go.

Lautanauhassa tällä kertaa mukana myös lauta.

Rings and brooches

British 12th century

 

Russian 21th century, Grunwald 2012

Estonian 13th - 15th century

Polish 21th century, Grunwald 2012

British 13th - 15th century

Polish 21th century, Grunwald 2012

Estonian, 10th - 13th century

 Right: Latvian 21th century, Cecis 2011