Tramme needlepoint kit featuring two angels in pink. Face, arms, and feet are in petit point.
Design size approximately 8" x 12 1/2" on 10-mesh Penelope canvas 18" x 20" suitable for a picture or pillow.
This kit includes the canvas and wool needlepoint yarn to complete the trammed portion. Yarn for the background is not included. Material to make pillow is not included.
This kit includes the trammed canvas (100% cotton canvas with hand-stitched trammed portions in 100% wool) and matching 100% wool needlepoint tapestry yarn to stitch over the trammed canvas using half-cross stitch, plus the small additional beige yarn mentioned above. This kit was produced in very limit quantities and does not have custom printed instructions, pictures, charts, needle, or packaging typically found in mass-produced kits. Imported from Germany.
A tramme needlepoint is a pre-stitched design on double-mesh Penelope canvas instead of a painted or printed design. The pre-stitching is typically horizontal lines. The needleworker uses the matching color yarn included in the kit to stitch over the pre-stitching. Sometimes fine details such as faces, skin, and flowers are pre-finished in petit point or gros stitch. Kits generally only include sufficient yarn to stitch over the pre-stitch using the half-cross stitch technique to save yarn. Some trammes have the entire design area pre-stitched, and others only have the main features pre-stitched and the needleworker provides their own yarn (and colors of choice) to stitch the background and unstitched areas.