What was this craft called ?

[tiffy 10]

Hi,

 

When a youngster I remember one of my Christmas gifts one year were a couple of boxed embroidery kits comprised of two boards with lots of slits in and numbers or letters on to indicate the colour of thread to be used in particular areas. Then using a tool similar to a scalpel (except rather than a blade it had a flat square 'nib' on the end) you simply pushed the thread into the slots. The resulting pictures were of a horse and the second was of swans. My parents hung them on the walls for years.

 

Did anyone else ever do this craft ?

 

What I'm after is the name of this craft, for the life of me I simply cannot recall what it was called.

 

Thanks in advance

[andrejuan 10]

Do you mean cross stitch?

[Plain Talker 11]

We had a picture of a tiger cub, and of a sailing ship on the sea, that's my mum did back in the sixties.

It was called 'Touch Tapestry'

[tiffy 10]

Hi PT,

 

the actual board had the slits in, it wasn't done on a piece of material. The picture itself was worked straight onto this board (it wasn't hard wood, don't know what it was really). Once the picture was finished you simply covered with clear polythene then attached the frame. All very light weight.

[Plain Talker 11]

Hi PT,

 

the actual board had the slits in, it wasn't done on a piece of material. The picture itself was worked straight onto this board (it wasn't hard wood, don't know what it was really). Once the picture was finished you simply covered with clear polythene then attached the frame. All very light weight.

 

(I never mentioned material, BTW)

 

The base where you put the yarn was polystyrene or something very similar.

 

As I say, it was called "Touch Tapestry", and I remember the tiger cub my mum did in it, very well.

[Huxley 10]

It was certainly called Touch Tapestry....a firm favourite many years ago!

[francypants 441]

I had a Touch Tapestry set, it was a kitten with a ball of wool.