My Valentine's Day

For quite a long time I wanted to create a new embroidery design that would symbolize love and to hang it in our bedroom. Valentine's Day seems like a great opportunity to create something like that.

I entered my studio and started working. I drew a Mandalla - a sacred circle that ebmeds a prayer  in. The circle symbolizes the Wholeness, the Infinity and the Cycle of creation

The love tree

In the middle of the circle grows a tree, with a shape of heart, which produces fruit of love. The heart is the center of our body and it symbolizes the soul and the emotion

The heart balances between giving and receiving. The right hand symbolizes giving and the left hand symbolizes receiving.

The heart serves as a bridge between inside and outside. Between our earthly life and our spiritual life and contains pure unconditional love, which is the healing energy.

The love tree is located in the center and around it the four elements of life - earth, air, water, and fire.

The tree connects the four elements and represents the human being, the creation.

The tree is full of flowers, leaves and fruits that symbolizing fertility and beauty.

Earth represents the basis of our physical body, rootedness and tribalism.
Two deers are leaning on the tree. The deer is a royal animal that represents the truth.

All animals are arranged in pairs in order to symbolize relationship.

The tree roots penetrate deeper into the earth, looking for water.
The water is full of life and fish.

Water represents the unconscious, the feminine energy, acceptance and creativity

The air is expressed by birds and butterflies which symbolizes the spiritual world, the freedom and intimacy
The fire is actually the sun which provides light and energy for all the living on Earth.

The sun symbolizes the physical world, the mind, the male energy and the giving

The emboroidery of Love Tree.

Especially for Valentine's Day I would like to introduce you two romantics vintage embroideries from my collection...

 Roses embroidery

Heart flower embroidery

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I wish you a lovely valentine's day

Love

Orly

The history of Embroidery Dreams

Toward the Election Day in Israel I want to show you a lovely historical picture.

Grandfather Samuel with his children Zvika and Alisa are standing in front of the first election propaganda in Israel.
So exciting, the first elections of Israel.

The dream of a new state came true.

Today I want to talk about my origin, thanks to them we are here, embroider our dreams.
This week I have got some embroidered napkins from Alisa, my aunt.
The beautiful embroidered napkins were embroidered by my grandmother Runya.
Grandmother Runya was an expert embroiders. Her stitches were perfect.
I believe that the importent thing is the experience and the process we pass through by creating and not necessarily the result

But this time when I saw these napkins I was so excited and amazed from the quality of embroidery and immediately I felt like I am touching a piece of another culture
from another period

Grandfather Samuel and grandmother Runya whit Zvika, the baby in the balcony of their little embroidery shop

While I'm talking about history, I want to show you some pictures of my family

Grandfather Samuel arrived to Israel before World War II

Grandfather Samuel, his mother Brayne and his brother Naftali

Grandfather Samuel in his youth

Finally, here are some beautiful embroidery napkins of grandmother Runya:-)

Embroidery simple flower whith color changes thread

 Look at the edges of the napkin  - what a beautiful finish

Tha same embroidery design in a deferent colors


Hope you enjoyed
Continue to create with joy
Orly

Everyone can print - NEW !

The sunrise of Embroidery Dreams.

Two weeks ago I have established  my new shop in ETSY - Embroidery Dreams 

I asked women to embroider my embroidery designs.

Many friends of mine, and friends of my Facebook,

contacted me and offered their skills. 

Today, I want to show you the first embroidered canvas,

embroidered by Miri Sgan-Cohen

From Manof village in Israel.

Beautiful embroidery! special stitches, double threading.

Beautiful colors, very harmonic.

Here are some pictures of the embroidery.

The Ornamental Flower.

 Beautiful colors.

 Look at the stitches of the leaves.

 Look at the Bullion Knot Stitches...

I'd love to know what do you think about it ? 

Write me down there :-)

Orly

10 Steps to a traditional printed embroidery

Today I'll show you the embroidery traditional printing process

Step 1

Drawing pattern on paper

Step 2

Copy the pattern on transparent paper

Step 3

Use the perforation machine to perforate the pattern on transparent paper

Step 4

Lay the perforated paper on the canvas.

Step 5

Spread the special blue ointment over the perforated paper.

Step 6

Move the perforated paper.

Step 7

Wait an hour for the design to dry.

Step 8

Now time to embroider!

Step 9

Wash the embroidered canvas by hand.

Step 10

Wait for the canvas to dry.

Iron gently.

The mission is completed!

Enjoy!

Orly.

Print like in the old days...

How it all began?

My name is Orly, I'm living in the Galilee in Israel, happily married with three lovely 

kids.

Since I know my husband, I remember his father talking

about his father and the old perforation machine for embroidery designs.

Late at night, after a hard day at work,

his father was working with the machine preparing designs for embroidery.

The designs were printed on canvas and sold to embroider women.

.

Samuel (my husband grandfather), his mother and grandmother emigrated to 

Israel from Poland before World War II.

In Poland they had a small haberdashery store with the perforation machine.

They sold sewing products and embroidery  clothes.

In Israel they have settled in Haifa, at the late thirties of last century and opened a 
small haberdashery store trying to keep the family tradition.

The old perforation machine has six wheels that make the needle move up and 

down and enable the operator to perforate the paper according to the drawn 
designs.

After we have the perforated paper ready we put it on the canvas   

Then we spread over the paper a special blue ointment.

The blue ointment penetrates through the holes to the canvas.

Now it's ready for embroidery!

After finishing the embroidery, it's time to wash the canvas.

The color prints washed out and the embroidered canvas is completed.

About a month ago I read in ETSY about a young woman producing 

printed canvas for embroidery. I was fascinated, everything was lovely. 
I liked the designs, the materials and the look of her shop.

It reminded me something old, something I already knew...

It reminded me the family perforation machine of grandfather Samuel.

Somehow, my heart started dancing, I felt joy and a lot of ideas emerged.

I called Zvika my father-in-law and asked him if the machine is still there ?

(Because at the time, he considerd to donate it to the museum of old crafts).

And yes!

It is still with us! not only the machine but also hundreds of designs on

perforated transparent papers.

we also found the recipe of the famous blue ointment Zvika wrote down before 
Samuel passed away.

I told Zvika about my idea to renew the store of his grandmother,

using the old machine and the traditional printing technique that already 
disappeared from the world.

I wanted to revive the nostalgic designs and to create new designs of myself.

Zvika was excited,

Since then, he started working...

He has restored the machine keeping the old lovely look.

I'm so excited…

I feel really lucky!

Excited to be the one for this magical mission.

I am filled with the joy of creation,

I reorganized my studio,

Learning about fabrics, embroidery threads and stitches.

I already have a lot of ideas to develope.

I have a feeling that the horizon is bright

and I'm excited!

Orly.