| Redwork. Bluework. Greenwork. Or
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| | The charming simplicity and affordability
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| Any-Color Work
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| | of Redwork was very popular among the
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| I think of Redwork as an embroidery
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| | immigrants and middle class of America,
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| design style, a line drawing in thread.
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| | partly as a backlash against the
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| And that style can be stitched with any
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| | excessive ornamentation of the Victorian
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| color. You've heard the term Bluework?
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| | culture of the time.Redwork's popularity
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| Bluework is just Redwork sewn with, any
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| | lasted until the 1920's when the
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| guesses? Anyone? That's right! Blue
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| | development of synthetic, colorfast dyes
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| thread.Unless you're recreating an
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| | opened up the world of color to
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| antique look, you can use any thread
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| | embroidery, not just for the wealthy but
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| color with Redwork designs, but to
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| | for everyone. But no embroidery style has
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| maintain the allure of the design, stitch
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| | ever had, or continues to have, the grass
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| it with just one color.A Little Redwork
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| | roots appeal of Redwork.
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| History
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| | The Resurgence of RedworkWhat goes
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| Redwork originally applied to a very
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| | around, comes around, and the same is
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| simple linear style of embroidery that
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| | true of Redwork. With the advent of
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| became popular in the United States in
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| | digitizing software, skilled digitizers,
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| the late 1800's when Turkish cotton
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| | computerized embroidery machines and
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| processors developed a secret technique
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| | thousands of thread hues, colorful
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| to make a red colorfast thread,
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| | embroidery continues to reach new
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| creatively known as 'Turkey red'.Until
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| | heights. Those same skills and
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| Turkey red came on the scene colored
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| | technologies allow us to create Redwork
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| cotton thread would fade or bleed when
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| | designs that are more intricate than
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| washed and line dried and couldn't be
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| | those of the past. But no matter how
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| used for everyday items such as towels,
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| | non-traditional or simple the pattern,
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| bed sheets and bedcovers. Embroidery with
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| | there is something undeniably appealing
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| colorful silk thread could only be
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| | and elegant about all Redwork designs.
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| afforded by the wealthy. If the rest of
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| | Because in the case of Redwork, less
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| us had anything embroidered it was with
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| | really is more.Deb Schneider is a machine
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| common white or natural cotton thread.
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| | embroidery design digitizer offering her
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| Kind of boring.Redwork designs were basic
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| | machine embroidery designs, Redwork
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| line drawings of children, birds,
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| | embroidery designs and appliques on her
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| flowers, a water pump, and other objects
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| | website: WindstarEmbroidery.
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| found around every homestead at the time.
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