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For details or further information on any ESP course, contact Brad Cape, EGA Education Coordinator or Marie Campbell, ESP Chairman.
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Extended Study Program (ESP)
The Extended Study Program serves the educational, research, and leadership needs of all embroidery enthusiasts, giving everyone the opportunity to participate in intensive programs that encourage creative expression and personal growth. Extended Study Program faculty are experts in embroidery and textiles and are drawn from the academic and museum community.
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2009 Classes
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June 18-21, 2009
Needlework Maps (Catherine Jordan)
Come and explore the exciting world of needlework mapmaking as color, dyeing, and painting effects along with counted and surface embroidery techniques are all combined to produce an original old style needlework map. Each map will be designed with all the fine details found in antique maps: Classic style lettering (including script and flourish), a compass rose, meridian lines, wind symbols, cartouche inserts framing details of the map maker and map, mermaids, sea serpents, whales and any other motifs which would characterize the geographical and historical aspects of your selected region.
This class will introduce students to vintage and illusory coloring effects and palettes, layout options, and some of the key components of historically important and valuable needlework maps and pictures. The final detail of each map includes fabric painting of the shorelines as we explore contemporary techniques applied to old world inspiration!
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July 16-19, 2009
Solving Those Crewel Problems (Judy Jeroy)
Immerse yourself in four days studying crewel embroidery in Louisville, Kentucky, with full access to the Embroidery Museum and Resource Center the home of the EGA Collection! Study will begin with a PowerPoint presentation of museum pieces of Jacobean work from Scotland and the United States, as well as contemporary works. Students will then apply this foundation to the study of examples from the EGA Collection, the Crewel Study Box, and the tutor.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own designs and will receive intensive assistance from the tutor. They will be instructed on the correlation of function to form - that is, the stitches and threads best suited for a specific finished object. Students not interested in designing may stitch one of several distinct historical or contemporary designs. After design selections are made, students will review how to transfer designs to fabric make color and stitch choices. The remaining days will be filled with study and stitching, including planning stitches for difficult shapes. Judy will explain and demonstrate her method of realistic shading as it applies to animals, birds, and flowers. Essential technical information will be presented, such as controlling fabric puckers, washing, blocking, and conservation methods. Through a hands-on demonstration, we will stretch, wash, and reassemble a finished but wrinkled stitchery, restoring it to presentation standards.
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November 2–5, 2009
Thread Magic (Ellen Anne Eddy)
The wondrous and enchanted world of Ellen Anne Eddy opens its doors to you through this intensive experience. Experience fabric empowerment by dyeing fabric to create the colors you seek through this creative process. Tie-dye and fabric painting will create the perfect surface for machine quilting, embroidery and embellishment.
We’ll build solid thread-painted images to add amazing punch to machine-quilted work. We’ll utilize reverse appliqué techniques, embroidery skills, and thread painting skills to create solid shaded images and 3-D appliqué with no size limitations and little or no distortion.
And then we’ll have thread magic, exploring all kinds of threads from rayons, metallics and iridescents to pearl cottons and novelty yarns using a mixture of machine quilting, embroidery, thread sketching, embellishing, and machine beading to make a 18” x 22” hanging. You may also choose to make a reversible jacket with stylish cuffs or a vest using hot quilting and embroidery techniques for a garment to flatter all figures.
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 Moving and Grooving Between Off-Loom Beading Stitches: Which Ones Work When?
April 19-22, 2010 (Carol Wilcox Wells)
Off-loom bead work has so many choices in stitches: peyote, right angle weave, herringbone, square, brick, and chevron chain to name a few, and when working on a project one tends to stick with a favorite. This class will explore and open up your thinking about the properties within the different stitches and how to combine them to your best advantage. We will make samples of how to move from one stitch to another and discuss the uses for those actions. We will look at other bead artists’ work and discern why they chose one stitch over another. If there is a project that you would like the class to talk about, bring it. This will be a very interactive course.
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Visit England with Marion
May 6–19, 2010 (Marion Scoular)
TOUR IS FULL - Wait List Forming
Twelve days in the wonderful month of May will be spent in London and the southern part of England in the company of an inveterate and accomplished traveler, Marion Scoular, a 1955 Graduate of the Royal School of Needlework. This will be her tenth tour. A luxury coach and Blue Ribbon guide will be with you for the duration of the tour.
Preliminary and Tentative Agenda
The program begins with a two-day class at the Royal School at Hampton Court, Introduction to Knot Gardens with Owen Davies as instructor, a visit to the Embroiderers’ Guild at Hampton Court, and to the Victoria and Albert Museum. We’ll see vestments at St. Paul’s Cathedral, tour various historic homes and gardens, visit with members of the Haslemere Branch of Embroiderers’ Guild for their regular monthly meeting, see textiles at the Haslemere Museum and kneelers at St. Bartholemew’s Church. We plan to tour Hever Castle (Ann Boleyn’s home) and may travel to Portsmouth to see the Overlord Embroidery housed in the D-Day Museum and the Mary Rose, built between 1509 and 1511, one of the first ships able to fire a broadside, and a firm favorite of King Henry VIII.
- Visit England brochure
- Limited to 22, early registration by September 15, 2009 is recommended.
- Deposit: $1000 for E.G.A. Members, $1100 for non-members.
- Tour Fee, which does NOT include airfare, to be determined.
- Balance of registration is due by February 20th, 2010.
- Cancellations with full refund of deposits, less an administration fee, will be given up to a time to be specified in the tour brochure, available September 1st, 2009.
- For further information as it becomes available, contact ESP Chairman Marie Campbell, mariecampbell2@verizon.net, 717-860-3640, or Brad Cape, EGA Education Coordinator, at EGA headquarters, bcape@egausa.org
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 Intense Pattern: Blackwork Master Class
July 15-18, 2010 (Shirley Kay Wolfersperger)
The ultimate graphic art technique in embroidery is modern blackwork. Not far from its roots in England, Spain, and North Africa, modern blackwork offers conciseness, clarity, and intrinsic beauty. Blackwork has gone far from fill-in-the blank and paint-by-number to the expressiveness of modern art. In this class we will study the infinity of pattern through blackwork.
For four pattern-filled days, we will study patterning theory as it applies to blackwork. This deep study begins with the basics of patterning such as the grids--block, brick, diamond, and shell, plus four others. It will include the manipulation of these grids to form infinite patterns to enhance any blackwork repertoire. We will also look at advanced patterning with rotation, translation, reflection, and glide reflection. Part of our work will be on value in blackwork--eight ways of achieving darks and lights with blackwork patterns. Plus we will have the challenge of making our own unique tessellations.
For inspiration for this patterning, we will look at works from Arabic calligraphy and architecture, Japanese kimono, modern artists, Native American pottery, and from many other sources. We will develop patterns from these sources, working in a notebook format. We will stitch small examples for our notebook and develop a small composition from our own unique patterns.
This is basically a notebook course. We will work on a true “workbasket sampler” that is not meant as a display piece, but as a record of our work and inspirations. We will take time to stitch our creations and to plan a blackwork piece that is entirely original to each student.
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