Lady's Repository Museum & Diamond K Folk Art

 Now Open for Registration!! Registration is now open again for my gummed silk class! You can read all about the class by clicking the tab a...

 Diamond K Folk Art Online Academy It gives me much pleasure to announce the opening of my new teaching website,   Diamond K Folk Art Online...

  17th c Inspired Gum Work Casket Here is a tour of my finished Gum Work casket. I hope you enjoyed following along on YouTube! If you haven...

  To Casket Finishing: Trim! Casket 1070-1873, shown above at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London is one of my favorite caskets becau...

 Things to Think about when Looking for Trims for a Box or Casket Happy Friday! I hope you are having a great stitching week...or perhaps ge...

  Gluing A Finished Panel Onto The Box So.....you have laboured for perhaps years on your embroidery and it's finally finished. All that...

 17th Century Silke Gum Worke  There were many techniques used in the 17th century to cover girls' cabinets, workboxes, and caskets. One...

  & Upcoming 2022 Classes  Today is just a short video to show you the progress of my Dome Top Casket and to reinforce my point that whi...

 Dome Top Casket Progress... Do you ever feel like you are on a roller coaster that won't stop? Lately, I have been desperately trying t...

Floss Tube Finer Finishing Tips 11 The tip for today is how to support the fabric for design transfer after its been laced into the frame.  ...

  Before You Know You Need to Think About Them.... I was editing videos for my Dome Top Casket series on YouTube today and think that this n...

 Floss Tube Finer Finishing Tips #9 Happy first Saturday of November! Stop by the You Tube today to see the latest video for the Dome Top Ca...

 Time to Paper the Outside! Ahhh a pretty clean slate ready to cover with the embroidery or decoration of one's own desire. Are  you fol...

  Wrangling That Paper! Happy Saturday All! I hope you had a great week. If you are following along with the progress of my little dome top ...

  Gilt Stamped Edgings It's time to finally start to paper my little dome-top casket.  I wanted to bring you all along with me so turned...

 Finer Finishing Tips #5   This week flew by in a minute. I have been somewhat ´in the zone´ working on my dome top casket and can't bel...

  Dome Top Casket Progress... So as you can tell, I have changed from referring to my little inexpensive Amazon dome top box as a 'box...