How Do You Prepare For Making Hardanger Lace?
• Select fabric that has counted threads. The warp and weft threads must be approximately the same (this means “evenweave” fabric”). Heavy linen with coarse regular weave is ideal because it ensures that you can count the threads easily.[1] • Choose a fabric color that suits your needs. While traditional Hardanger embroidery is white worked on white, today’s range of fabric colors and threads open up a wider possibility of color choices. • Pay careful attention to accurately counting the threads. Hardanger is not hard but it must be accurate. Counting the threads is the most important part of Hardanger embroidery. One mistake will ruin the pattern and make it necessary to start the work all over again. • Learn the stitches used for Hardanger. The stitches used in Hardanger are the Kloster blocks stitch (satin stitch) for solid sections of the designs and under-and-over woven bars (or wrapped bars) for the cut and drawn pieces. • The Kloster block stitches are arranged to outline the cu
