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  2. Crewel embroidery - Wikipedia

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    The origin of the word crewel is unknown but is thought to come from an ancient word describing the curl in the staple, the single hair of the wool. [5] The word crewel in the 1700s meant worsted, a wool yarn with twist, and thus crewel embroidery was not identified with particular styles of designs, but rather was embroidery with the use of this wool thread.

  3. Needlepoint - Wikipedia

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    Although needlepoint may be worked in a variety of stitches, many needlepoint designs use only a simple tent stitch and rely upon color changes in the yarn to construct the pattern. Needlepoint is the oldest form of canvas work. [2] The degree of detail in needlepoint depends on the thread count of the underlying mesh fabric. Due to the ...

  4. Embroidery - Wikipedia

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    The first embroidery machine was the hand embroidery machine, invented in France in 1832 by Josué Heilmann. [35] The next evolutionary step was the schiffli embroidery machine. The latter borrowed from the sewing machine and the Jacquard loom to fully automate its operation.

  5. List of sewing stitches - Wikipedia

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    types of hand sewing stitches. This is a list of stitches used in hand and machine sewing. The most common standard for stitches in the apparel industry is ASTM International ASTM D6193-16(2020) [1] The standard also covers various types of seams. Under this classification of stitches there are basic groups as follows:

  6. 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.

  7. Darning - Wikipedia

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    Pattern darning is a type of embroidery that uses parallel rows of straight stitches of different lengths to create a geometric design. [ 2 ] Net darning , also called filet lace , is a 19th-century technique using stitching on a mesh foundation fabric to imitate lace .

  8. Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework - Wikipedia

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    It was inspired by the crewel embroidery of 18th-century women who had lived in the Deerfield, Massachusetts, area. Members of the Blue and White Society initially used the patterns and stitches from these earlier works, but because these new embroideries were not meant to replicate the earlier works, the embroidery soon deviated from the ...

  9. 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.

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