Things have been busy so it's been work and knotting lately. I picked up a copy of a translation of Art Du Brodeur (Art of the Embroiderer)  by Charles Germain De Saint-Auban who was the embroiderer to King Louis XV. It had a little bit on knotting! It talks a little about what to do with your knotted threads, but no info on how to make them, which was fine except... it had a diagram of a whole new knotted thread!

I kept trying different things to try recreate this new knot, I spent hours online looking for info, hours trying to get my knots to stand up like that, then gave it up as a bad job. Yesterday however I tried something new and eureka! The double sided knotted thread!!!!

beyond knotting though this book is pretty interesting, it has first hand accounts of the tools of the trade used back then, as well as some of the designs used on clothing for the wedding of the Dauphin (later Louis XVI) and other people and occasions.

maybe not blog worthy, but I haven't posted in a while and this was so exciting to me!! (and yes still going to try do a tutorial, but time has been hard to find lately, sorry it's taking forever)