Carey Company

Since 1990, we have endeavoured to offer a fast and efficient service with quality products. Paul and Jacqui are happy to help with any queries you may have about braiding and related subjects. Jacqui Carey is a maker, teacher, author and researcher of textiles. If you have any queries, including trade enquiries, you are welcome to Contact us for details.

12/08/2023

A new kit coming soon…Based on Jacqui’s ground-breaking research, this sweet bag uses historicallyaccurate stitches.

Make your own sweet bag with all the trimmings.

Kit instructions:
The kit contains instruction covering the embroiderer’s skills of design transfer,‘circular’ tent stitch, Elizabethan ground stitch, Elizabethan plaited braid stitchand bag construction, and the silkwoman’s skills for the trimmings, including braidmaking, twined-edging, knotting, gimp-making and tassel making.

Kit materials
- Linen
- Silk lining (infused with a C17th recipe for sweet bags)
- Silk threads – a multitude of colours
- Metallic threads – gold and silver
- Tassel moulds – handmade from English oak
- Needles
- Weighted bobbin – for gimp-making
- Former – for knotting and tassel making

Launching at the 2023 World Needlework Convention 5th-15th October, with a fully immersive experience:

https://www.needleworktours.com.au/convention/2023-world-needleworkconvention/presentations

12/08/2023

23/11/2022

We are pleased to announce that Jacqui Carey’s book “Sweet Bags: An Investigation into 16th & 17th Century Needlework” will be back in stock from the 7th December 2022.
We are accepting pre-orders that will be posted as soon as they are available.

Sweet Bags – Carey Company An Investigation into 16th and 17th Century Needlework. Jacqui Carey has been meticulously analysing English textiles that have survived from the late-sixteenth to early-seventeenth century. The object-based research revealed a range of ‘lost’ needlework stitches, and this book aims to re-establ...

Sharp Forms - Life at the Edge of Art and Mathematics - Tarquin Group

23/11/2022

Maths & Art
It was a privilege to know John Sharp - he was an inspiration and connected together so many strands.
I recently contributed to his memorial volume “Sharp Forms: A life in Art and Mathematics”
It is an ebook with a free version that commemorates John's life and a longer version incorporating the free version but with examples of his work and original articles, which has a small charge. Part of that charge will go to good causes. Do have a look HERE for more details!

Sharp Forms - Life at the Edge of Art and Mathematics - Tarquin Group Sharp Forms - Life at the Edge of Art and Mathematics

10/07/2021

Carey Company updated their address.

Photos from Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust - QEST's post

19/02/2021

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