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Pipe Art #003 August 18th, 2009

If you live in large cities, Sydney, New York, London etc, there are many stores that specialize in these

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Here are two sources that I use to buy Tapestries Online:

#1) https://www.friendly-services.com/index.phtml

Ask for Jeanette, extremely helpful and friendly lady , 805-562-9922 in California

#2) http://www.morrisandsons.com.au/catalog/index.php

This store is in Sydney, Morris & Sons, but they ship worldwide. They stock 1000’s of different tapestries

When checking both stores you will usally find pics of Pipes in pages that contain Ships and Nautical Themes

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This one I have, and plan to start someday

Some Sample of Tapestry Pipe Images that are available

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I will send Kevin / Admin a document that he can post as a “pdf” with instructions of how to do these

There are 3 different stitches:

Continental
Half Cross Stitch
Basket-weave

I strongly recommend using the “Congenital Stitch” , it uses a little more wool, but the results are better in that the picture looks fuller with less gaps and spaces showig canvas.

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Custom made.

You can buy blank tapestry canvass and have someone paint a custom image on it for you to stitch from a picture etc. The Aussies love to do this with a favorite dog. Morris and Sons offers this service.

So you could make a pic of:

your father / grandfather with his pipe
your favorite pipe
even some of the graphics on the tins would make a good subject, like Samuel Gawiths Squadron Leader, Skiff)

There is also software available in England from Royal Tapestries, which take an normal image on your computer (jpg, tiff, giff, pgn, psd) and will create a tapestry design for you. You can control it complexity as to size, amount of colour shades, and stitch size.

If as Kevin, you don’t want to make your own, many tapestry shops have people who will actually do the sewing for you.

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Here are some other sites

http://www.needle-craft-fair.co.uk/Exhibitors.cfm?Type=Needlepoint&SubType=Software

http://www.stitchcraft.com.au/

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