Fishbone: this is a lovely stitch that is mainly used for feathers, leaves or petals.

Satin Stitch: satin stitch is mainly used as a filler stitch to cover large areas e.g flowers. In the middle of the flower I have used a french knot.

Different jacobean stitches

This is a Chain stitch. It is done by making a normal stitch but not pulling the tread all they way through the fabric. you then make the next stitch by putting the needle through the loop left by the previous stitch.

Jacobean Embroidery

Jacobean embroidery refers to embroidery styles that flourished in the reign of King James I of England in first quarter of the 17th century.
The term is usually used today to describe a form of crewel embroidery used for furnishing characterized by fanciful plant and animal shapes worked in a variety of stitches with two-ply wool yarn on linen. Popular motifs in Jacobean embroidery, especially curtains for bed hangings, are the Tree of Life and stylized forests, usually rendered as exotic plants arising from a landscape or terra firma with birds, stags, squirrels, and other familiar animals. There are many different techniques of jacobean embroidery which create the look.

This is the Dior dress that i am trying to recreate. As you can see it consists of a large amount of beading. The dress was made 1954 and had a team of 25 beaders at any one time, It took a year to make. i am going to use the same techniques that they did which include tambour beading and hand beading. The dress is called 'Chambord'

Some more samples

These are some samples I did. I used a mixture of Tambour beading and hand beading to create the flowers. This sample is for a Dior dress I am trying to recreate.

Adding beads

To add the beads:

Thread the beads onto you real of thread before making your knot on you fabric.

Make the knot at the start of your pattern.

Now when you start you first loop push one of you beads up to the top the fabric and then loop your thread around your hook behind your bead .