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  2. Embroidery thread - Wikipedia

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    Embroidery floss or stranded cotton is a loosely twisted, slightly glossy 6-strand thread, usually of cotton but also manufactured in silk, linen, and rayon.Cotton floss is the standard thread for cross-stitch, and is suitable for most embroidery excluding robust canvas embroidery.

  3. Marghab Linens - Wikipedia

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    Marghab Linens Ltd. was a company specialising in table linens founded on Madeira in 1933 by British Cypriot Emile Marghab and his South Dakotan wife Vera (née Way); and disestablished in 1980. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The company was also known as Emile Marghab Inc. [ 3 ]

  4. Broderie anglaise - Wikipedia

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    Beginning in the 1870s, the designs and techniques of broderie anglaise could be copied by the Swiss hand-embroidery and schiffli embroidery machines. Today, most broderie anglaise is created by machine. [2] Madeira work is a popular form of broderie anglaise associated with artisans on Madeira, a group of Portuguese islands off the coast of ...

  5. Tenango embroidery - Wikipedia

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    The embroidery has become popular enough to be found in many sales venues in Mexico and regularly shipped abroad. [7] Pieces can sell anywhere from 15 to 10,000 or more Mexican pesos depending on size and quality. [6] They have been sold in upscale hotels and boutiques, with some artisans working with Mexican and foreign designers. [6]

  6. Banner-making - Wikipedia

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    All their banners were made from pure silk woven by Huguenots in London. At the height of banner production there were said to be 17,000 looms in operation. The silk was stretched taut over a wooden frame and coated with India rubber, and the oil colours applied to it were 'old', i.e. had been standing around for a while.

  7. Cutwork - Wikipedia

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    Cutwork frill on a cotton petticoat. Cutwork or cut work, also known as punto tagliato in Italian, is a needlework technique in which portions of a textile, typically cotton or linen, [1] are cut away and the resulting "hole" is reinforced and filled with embroidery or needle lace.

  8. Piteado - Wikipedia

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    Hand embroidering a belt requires about 48 hours of labor. The kind of agave thread used to embroidery is produced in Veracruz, Chiapas, and Oaxaca. Artisans from those regions make well-finished and more elaborate piteado works, but because of the lack of advertising and promotion, it is often not possible for them to sell to their intended ...

  9. Drawn thread work - Wikipedia

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    Drawn thread work is one of the earliest forms of open work embroidery, and has been worked throughout Europe. Originally it was often used for ecclesiastical items and to ornament shrouds. [1] It is a form of counted-thread embroidery based on removing threads from the warp and/or the weft of a piece of even-weave fabric. The remaining threads ...

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