This stole is a little bit different from the way I usually work but once I had talked to the client about their ideas for the stole, which is to be used at the wedding of two very dear friends, this way of creating a design seemed an obvious way to go. I was given the quote from Ecclesiastes 4: 9-12 ‘A cord of three strands is not quickly broken….’, the client wanted a design that flowed down the stole from a cross on the left at chest height. The colours that were to be used at the wedding were gold, burgundy and silver and I was to keep to these colours. The idea that the cross could be made from couched treads came to me and then developed in to the whole design being formed from these three ‘cords’ representing God, the bride and the groom.
The stole was created using ivory Dupion silk with hand couched 3ply twist thread in gold, silver & burgundy.
