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2. Embroidery stitch - Wikipedia

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   Bangladesh's Nakshi Kantha embroidery. An illustration of the buttonhole stitch. In everyday language, a stitch in the context of embroidery or hand-sewing is defined as the movement of the embroidery needle from the back of the fibre to the front side and back to the back side. [1] The thread stroke on the front side produced by this is also ...

3. Sujini embroidery work of Bihar - Wikipedia

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   The motifs are designed by the women sewing the quilt, usually of their choice. The embroidery is done as a fine running stitch with the thread of the same colour as the background cloth. For the main outline of the proposed pattern, chain stitch using black, brown and red thread is used. [1] The products made now are as quilts or bed sheets.

4. Nakshi kantha - Wikipedia

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   The colourful patterns and designs that are embroidered resulted in the name "Nakshi Kantha," [6] which was derived from the Bengali word "naksha," referring to artistic patterns. [7] Early kanthas had a white background accented with red, blue, and black embroidery; later, yellow, green, pink, and other colours were also included.

5. Sampler (needlework) - Wikipedia

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   An American sampler: "Margaret Barnholt her sampler done in the twelth [sic] year of her age 1831". English band sampler featuring 'boxers', c. 1650 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.

6. Bulla (seal) - Wikipedia

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   A bulla (or clay envelope) and its contents on display at the Louvre. Uruk period (4000–3100 BC).. A bulla (Medieval Latin for "a round seal", from Classical Latin bulla, "bubble, blob"; plural bullae) is an inscribed clay, soft metal (lead or tin), bitumen, or wax token used in commercial and legal documentation as a form of authentication and for tamper-proofing whatever is attached to it ...