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What is
mulberry paper?
Mulberry
Paper originates from the Mulberry Tree. It is hand crafted, soft and
feather-like
to the touch. An amazing fact is how much stitching the paper can
withstand – however – you will notice lots of tiny holes on your stitch out,
when you hold it against the light. As you can see this floral
design is quite dense – and yet no issues with the paper. |
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To stitch on Mulberry
paper is easy, really. After testing various ways of hooping I came to the
conclusion that the “paper frame technique” works best. Just hoop a piece of
heavy duty stabilizer, mark in such a way that you have a 4x4 /10x10cm
square after cutting out the center. The big advantage is that you can use
this frame over and over again. If you plan to do a series of greeting cards
there is no need to hoop new every time – just “stick" it on with spray
adhesive. |
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Spray on all 4 sides of
the square and cut a piece of mulberry paper, place on top, press down firm
so it stays in place and fix the hoop to the machine. |
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Stitch out design
completely – if you like to stitch out text also, proceed in the same manner
by removing the main stitch out and adhere another piece of mulberry paper into
your paper frame. This is an ideal way to use up paper off-cuts.
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You now have 2
components, the design and the lettering. You can, of course, just cut all the way around close to the
stitched outline – but I love this “fringed” finish rather which is achieved
by wetting the area around the stitched border and pulling out pieces of the
paper. Thanks to it’s nature you will have a pretty, rather rustic
(parchment) look.
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All that is left for
you to do now is to prepare a suitable size of card stock which can be
embellished first by cutting fancy edges, using glitter, or glitter glue,
gold and silver pens, or stickers to enhance a certain theme. Then glue your
mulberry stitch outs onto the card stock – and now you have your very own
self-crafted greeting card done! |
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Meet Ursula! |
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I hope you have enjoyed learning about
Mulberry Paper and have fun with the Easter design! |
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Ursula |
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Ursula
lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
She
loved sewing and knitting from an early age. But when she was introduced
to machine embroidery she entered a whole new fascinating world. It took
not long to find out that this was what she wanted for her future.
Inspiration Mutz was founded in July 2005. Over time Ursula tested her
preferences for creating embroidery designs in various ways which she
enjoys a lot but her favorite techniques lay in working with Organza and Tulle
in combination with FSL. She also loves to create appliqué designs and
is always ready to try something in addition: re: Stitching on Mulberry
Paper |
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