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Opus Anglicanum was usually embroidered on linen or, later, velvet, in split stitch and couching with silk and gold or silver-gilt thread. [2] Gold-wound thread, pearls and jewels are all mentioned in inventory descriptions.
Sailmaker's stitch – may refer to any of the hand stitches used for stitching canvas sails, including the flat stitch, round stitch, baseball stitch, herringbone stitch. [2] Slip stitch – form of blind stitch for fastening two pieces of fabric together from the right side without the thread showing
Counted stitch blackwork, 1530s (left), and free stitch blackwork, 1590s (right). Blackwork , sometimes historically termed Spanish blackwork , is a form of embroidery generally worked in black thread, although other colours are also used on occasion, as in scarletwork , where the embroidery is worked in red thread. [ 1 ]
Basic two-colour Fair Isle requires no additional techniques beyond the basic knit stitch: the purl stitch is not used if the garment is knit in the round. At each knit stitch, there are two available "active" colours of yarn; one is drawn through to make the knit stitch, and the other is simply held behind the piece, carried as a loose strand ...
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In a faux flat felled seam, two pieces of fabric are sewn with wrong sides together, usually at 1 ⁄ 2 inch (1.3 cm). One side of the seam allowance is trimmed to 1 ⁄ 8 inch (0.3 cm), followed by folding the 1 ⁄ 2 -inch side in half and pressing down, then edge stitching.
Garter stitch is the most basic form of welting (as seen from the right side). In the round, garter stitch is produced by knitting and purling alternate rounds. By contrast, in the flat, garter stitch is produced by knitting every stitch (or purling every stitch, though this is much less common, and often referred to as 'reverse garter stitch ...