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  2. Embroidery - Wikipedia

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    In free or surface embroidery, designs are applied without regard to the weave of the underlying fabric. Examples include crewel and traditional Chinese and Japanese embroidery. Counted-thread embroidery patterns are created by making stitches over a predetermined number of threads in the foundation fabric.

  3. Sampler (needlework) - Wikipedia

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    The earliest sampler extant is a spot sampler, i.e. one having randomly scattered motifs, of the Nazca culture in Peru [5] formerly in the Museum of Primitive Art, New York City. It is estimated to date from ca. 200 BCE –300 CE and is worked in cotton and wool pattern darning on a woven cotton ground.

  4. Needlework - Wikipedia

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    Needlework was an important fact of women's identity during the Victorian age, including embroidery, netting, knitting, crochet, and Berlin wool work. A growing middle class had more leisure time than ever before; printed materials offered homemakers thousands of patterns.

  5. 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".

  6. Drawn thread work - Wikipedia

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    Drawn thread embroidery is a very early form of open work embroidery, and is the basis of lace.Drawn thread work from the 12th century was known as Opus Tiratum and Punto Tirato [1] from the Arab Tiraz workshops in Palermo.

  7. William Morris textile designs - Wikipedia

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    He also revived the art of hand-knotting for making small carpets. [12] In the 1880s, in addition to the Hammersmith carpets, Morris created series of designs for machine-made Axminster and Kidderminister carpets, made at the Wilton factory or at Heckmondwike Manufacturing company in Yorkshire. Many of the carpets he designed used the patterns ...

  8. Clare embroidery - Wikipedia

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    Clare embroidery was a style of Irish textile art established at the Clare Embroidery School, which was founded by Florence Vere O'Brien. Using floral and geometric designs, often in blue and white threads, pieces decorated in this style were exhibited in Ireland, England and America. Queen Victoria purchased smocks decorated with Clare embroidery.

  9. Redwork - Wikipedia

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    Redwork is a form of American embroidery, also called art needlework, that developed in the 19th century and was particularly popular between 1855 and 1925. It traditionally uses red thread, chosen because red dyes were the first commercially available colorfast dyes, in the form of Turkey red embroidery floss. [ 2 ]

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