I decided to embroider this pouch because I wanted to show the orders in which I am a member of in a
fitting way. I decided on Or Nué, because it was a technique that I hadn’t tried before. Or Nué has
always seemed too complicated and hard to learn, but I wanted to try it. I decided to make a pouch
because it would be a useful piece where one can showcase embroidery. The two sides of the pouch
would give a perfect reason to make two different patterns on one piece. The most important reason is
of course the fact that a pouch is not a big item and can be finished in a reasonable time, even when the
technique used is time consuming.
The Panache pattern was pretty straight forward, I only used the prettiest heraldic feathers I could find. As the embroidery technique is fairly late period, I could take later period heraldry to take the feathers from. The Lindquistringe dragon is a bit more complicated. I took inspiration from the existing embroidered badge of the Order of the Dragon, now on display in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, to make my own dragon pattern.
The Panache pattern was pretty straight forward, I only used the prettiest heraldic feathers I could find. As the embroidery technique is fairly late period, I could take later period heraldry to take the feathers from. The Lindquistringe dragon is a bit more complicated. I took inspiration from the existing embroidered badge of the Order of the Dragon, now on display in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, to make my own dragon pattern.