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2. Embroidery - Wikipedia

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   Embroidery is the art of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to stitch thread or yarn. Embroidery may also incorporate other materials such as pearls, beads, quills, and sequins. In modern days, embroidery is usually seen on hats, clothing, blankets, and handbags. Embroidery is available in a wide variety of thread or yarn colour.

3. Bargello (needlework) - Wikipedia

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   A number of alternative names are used by different scholars, including: Florentine work - after the fact that the Bargello Museum is in Florence. Hungarian point (punto unghero) - in Italian, Bargello is known as "Hungarian Point", [1] [2] indicating that the Florentines believed the technique originated in Hungary. However, English embroidery ...

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. Patchwork - Wikipedia

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   Patchwork is often used to make quilts, but it can also be used to make rugs, bags, wall-hangings, warm jackets, cushion covers, skirts, waistcoats and other items of clothing. Some textile artists work with patchwork, often combining it with embroidery and other forms of stitchery.

6. Appliqué - Wikipedia

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   It is commonly used as decoration, especially on garments. The technique is accomplished either by hand stitching or machine. Appliqué is commonly practised with textiles, but the term may be applied to similar techniques used on different materials. In the context of ceramics, for example, an appliqué is a separate piece of clay added to the ...

7. Category:Embroidery - Wikipedia

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   Embroidery is a form of needlework. It consists of embellishing fabric by sewing it with ornamental stitches. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Embroidery .