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  2. Embroidery - Wikipedia

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    Embroidery. Laid threads, a surface technique in wool on linen. The Bayeux Tapestry, 11th century. Embroidery is the art of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to stitch thread or yarn. Embroidery may also incorporate other materials such as pearls, beads, quills, and sequins.

  3. English embroidery - Wikipedia

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    The Butler-Bowdon Cope, 1330–1350, V&A Museum no. T.36-1955.. The Anglo-Saxon embroidery style combining split stitch and couching with silk and goldwork in gold or silver-gilt thread of the Durham examples flowered from the 12th to the 14th centuries into a style known to contemporaries as Opus Anglicanum or "English work".

  4. Machine embroidery - Wikipedia

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    Machine embroidery is an embroidery process whereby a sewing machine or embroidery machine is used to create patterns on textiles. It is used commercially in product branding, corporate advertising, and uniform adornment. It is also used in the fashion industry to decorate garments and apparel. Machine embroidery is used by hobbyists and ...

  5. Sampler (needlework) - Wikipedia

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    A needlework sampler is a piece of embroidery or cross-stitching produced as a 'specimen of achievement', [1] demonstration or a test of skill in needlework. [2][3] It often includes the alphabet, figures, motifs, decorative borders and sometimes the name of the person who embroidered it and the date. The word sampler is derived from the Latin ...

  6. Blackwork - Wikipedia

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    Blackwork, sometimes historically termed Spanish blackwork, is a form of embroidery generally worked in black thread, although other colours are also used on occasion, as in scarletwork, where the embroidery is worked in red thread. [1] Most strongly associated with Tudor period England, blackwork typically, though not always, takes the form of ...

  7. William Morris textile designs - Wikipedia

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    William Morris textile designs. William Morris (1834-1898), a founder of the British Arts and Crafts movement, sought to restore the prestige and methods of hand-made crafts, including textiles, in opposition to the 19th century tendency toward factory-produced textiles. With this goal in mind, he created his own workshop and designed dozens of ...

  8. Crewel embroidery - Wikipedia

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    Crewel embroidery, or crewelwork, is a type of surface embroidery using wool. A wide variety of different embroidery stitches are used to follow a design outline applied to the fabric. The technique is at least a thousand years old. [citation needed] Crewel embroidery is not identified with particular styles of designs, but rather is embroidery ...

  9. Hand embroidery machine - Wikipedia

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    The hand embroidery machine is a multi-needle, satin stitch embroidery machine. Multi-needle refers to fact that the machine has up to two rows of needles. Each needle creates a copy of the design. The satin stitch is created by passing the threaded needle completely through the fabric. The hand machine is the predecessor of the schiffli ...

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