new linen towel with machine shadow embroidery with some hand embroidery
My daughter grew up with antique textiles and now genuinely enjoys having them in her own home. Her sizable collection of guest towels are displayed in her bathroom, interspersed with new towels I have made her. Due to the company they keep, these too pass for vintage. NOTE: All the embroidery is a greyed lavender, not the brilliant purple shown in these pictures. I’ve got to learn photo shop.
only the R monogrammed towel is new
The shadow embroidered “R” and the surrounding posies are from Suzanne Hinshaw’s Shadow Work by Machine Monograms design collection. The linen towel is a so-called “blank,” and came with white on white hand embroidery, including fil tire’, its own shadow work and surface embroidery.
By adding hand embroidered lavender granitos to the pre-existing embroidery, I think the entire towel looks more like one done entirely by hand in an earlier era.
new monogram towels and vintage drawn thread towel
When we first began machine embroidery, my friend Suzanne Sawko told me that, in her opinion, even the littlest bit of hand embroidery included in a machine embroidery design “elevates” the entire project. I have never forgotten that and always try to include a little handwork when time allows.
With all the hand embroidery on the antique towels, it doesn’t take much to convince a bathroom visitor that the new one is of the same era.
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