Thread painting is an accurate description. A canvas or cloth heavy enough to sustain repeated needle jabs is stretched on a frame and tacked down. Often as many as six punch needles loaded with different colored are yarn ready to cover the canvas.
The stitches are placed like laying bricks, you go up and then half-way back down to fill in the canvas. You go in from the front and there is more delicate detail and shading.
Once she has punched the yarn through the cloth, she takes up the slack with her left fingers.
Along the stitched line the looped stitches are kept tigh tin the back so they don't come loose. After a line is completed or an area in filled, the back of the canvas is scratched with the left fingers to settle the design. This stabalizes the pattern making sure they don't loosen and pull through to the front of the finished product. |
