Sure! Here's a writeup I did a while back on a different forum that has pretty much all the info I've been able to dig up about it. :)

"...My plan was to do it with klosterstich (not the brick stitch that's called that in the US, the traditional couched stitch which is somehow impossible to find information on), but then I had some issues with the fabric so I've gone a different direction... However, I did a lot of research before I got started and had all my complications, so I thought I might make a little post about it because of how stupidly impossible it is to find information on it and the one person that seems to be really skilled at it charges 15 euro/month to subscribe to her blog, which is bollocks and in my opinion completely against everything the SCA stands for. So... this is what I've learned, for any of you that are adventitious enough to try out this technique. :)

Historically, this technique was used to make tapestries mostly, and we have a good bit of extant work to sort out exactly how it was done. One of the most well known surviving pieces is [url=http://medieval.webcon.net.au/extant_malterer_hanging.html]The Malterer Hanging, dated to 1310-1320, from the then-Germanic States[/url]. [img]http://i.imgur.com/3edoqCW.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/PtyW5zM.jpg[/img]

There are actually three different stitches that are used in this technique, and are sort-of interchangeable from what I can tell. The first two are more widely known and the amazing Mary Corbet (check out her site if you haven't, by the way, for amazing tutorials and patterns) has great videos on so I won't go further to explain them.

[b]bokhara couching:[/b] [url]http://www.needlenthread.com/2008/01/bokhara-couching-embroidery-video.html[/url] [video type="youtube"]s3PGMymWDDA[/video]

[b]roumanian couching:[/b] [url]http://www.needlenthread.com/2008/01/embroidery-video-tutorial-roumanian.html[/url] [video type="youtube"]GRLv2KxpgYc[/video]

And, finally, the stitch known as [b]"klosterstich"[/b] [img]http://i.imgur.com/zaxxzOk.gif[/img] As you can see... it looks quite simple. Then why is this so hard to find information on? :iiam:

[img]http://i.imgur.com/YaVEo39.jpg[/img] The first diagram is laying the first thread - this is supposed to be done with a single thread - which as far as I've been able to determine should always be laid vertical, no matter what sort of shape you're filling in. Then, as per the second diagram, on the "return" trip you will come up under the thread and make long couching stitches, wrapped in the same direction that the strand of thread is twisted, so as to hide the couching thread and make it look like it's just part of the twist of the thread. This is done tightly, line by line, and if you do it correctly it should look nice and solid.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/Zru3Nag.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/VPqwCMK.jpg[/img] This is a sample of the front and back of work, for a better idea of the length of the couching stitches. They're done at a fairly regular interval, much like the above videos, and it's my opinion after working a little of it that it's very beneficial to pencil in some lines so you can consistently make your couching line up, as Mary Corbet has in her videos.

If this interests you, [url=http://larsdatter.com/kloster.htm]here's a short article[/url], as well [url=http://wkneedle.bayrose.org/filum/filum_35_klosterstich.pdf]here's the handout[/url] that the majority of this information has come from. Unfortunately most of the source links have been removed or are dead by now, but it's still got some little "babies first" patterns in it for fun, if you want to try it out. [url=http://cearashionnach.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/klosterstich-instructions-2014.pdf]This one[/url] is also quite good, and is more up to date.