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2. Celtic cross stitch - Wikipedia

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   Celtic cross stitch is a style of cross-stitch embroidery which recreates Celtic art patterns typical of early medieval Insular art using contemporary cross-stitch techniques. Celtic cross stitch typically employs rich, deep colors, intricate geometrical patterns, spirals , interlacing patterns, knotwork , alphabets, animal forms and zoomorphic ...

3. Gerda Bengtsson - Wikipedia

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   Gerda Johanne Bengtsson (6 February 1900– 13 December 1995) was a Danish textile artist who specialized in embroidery.Initially inspired by the stylized animals and plants used in medieval needlework, she became an outstanding designer who could transform depictions of wild flowers into simple but effective embroidery patterns.

4. Assisi embroidery - Wikipedia

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   In the oldest pieces, the figures were drawn freehand on the fabric and surrounded with Holbein stitch. The background, often cream linen, [2] was filled as well as possible. For more modern pieces the pattern was constructed carefully on a paper grid in much the same way as counted cross-stitch patterns are created.

5. Cross stitches - Wikipedia

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   Cross stitch was widely used to mark household linens in the 18th and 19th centuries, and girls' skills in this essential task were demonstrated with elaborate samplers embroidered with cross-stitched alphabets, numbers, birds and other animals, and the crowns and coronets sewn onto the linens of the nobility.

6. Xiang embroidery - Wikipedia

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   In Xiang Embroidery, Landscape, animals and characters are common subjects, and the peonies, tigers, cats, dogs and dragons are the most representative designs characterized by rich changes in the layering of the colors and the high sense of painting. Embroidering landscape is relatively easier than embroidering animals, but characters are the ...

7. Sampler (needlework) - Wikipedia

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   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. It has seventy-four figures of birds, plants and mythological beings. [6] Coptic sampler fragments [7] of silk on linen in double running stitch and pattern darning have been found in Egyptian burial grounds of 400–500 ...

8. Persian embroidery - Wikipedia

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   The earliest piece of physical Persian embroidery is from the Seljuk Empire (1037–1194 A.D.); [2] it featured a strong Chinese-style pattern influencing the design. [2] The Chinese style of embroidery of this time featured a satin stitch (Persian: ṭirāz) made of silk thread and was applied mainly for ornamentation purposes.

9. Jacobean embroidery - Wikipedia

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   Early Jacobean embroidery often featured scrolling floral patterns worked in colored silks on linen, a fashion that arose in the earlier Elizabethan era.Embroidered jackets were fashionable for both men and women in the period 1600-1620, and several of these jackets have survived.