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  2. Suzani (textile) - Wikipedia

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    e. Suzani is a type of embroidered and decorative tribal textile made in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and other Central Asian countries. Suzani is from the Persian سوزن Suzan which means needle. The art of making such textiles in Iran is called سوزن‌دوزی Suzandozi (needlework). Suzanis are rather delicate and extremely few ...

  3. Kaitag textiles - Wikipedia

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    Kaitag textiles. Kaitag textiles are an unusual embroidered textile art form from the Kaytagsky District of southeast Dagestan, Russia, inhabited mainly by Dargins and Kumyks. Kaitag textiles are of simple construction, being laid and couched silk - floss embroidery on a cotton ground. The designs are often in the style of classical Safavid ...

  4. Hmong textile art - Wikipedia

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    Hmong Textile Art consists of traditional and modern textile arts and crafts produced by the Hmong people. Traditional Hmong textile examples include hand-spun hemp cloth production, basket weaving, batik dyeing, and a unique form of embroidery known as flower cloth or Paj Ntaub in the Hmong language RPA. The most widely recognized modern style ...

  5. Magna Carta (An Embroidery) - Wikipedia

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    Dimensions. 1.5 m × 13 m (4.9 ft × 43 ft) Documentary film on the making of Magna Carta (An Embroidery) Magna Carta (An Embroidery) is a 2015 work by English installation artist Cornelia Parker. [1] The artwork is an embroidered representation of the complete text and images of an online encyclopedia article for Magna Carta, as it appeared in ...

  6. Redwork - Wikipedia

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    Redwork is a form of American embroidery, also called art needlework, that developed in the 19th century and was particularly popular between 1855 and 1925. It traditionally uses red thread, chosen because red dyes were the first commercially available colorfast dyes, in the form of Turkey red embroidery floss. [ 2]

  7. Assisi embroidery - Wikipedia

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    Assisi embroidery. Assisi embroidery is a form of counted-thread embroidery based on an ancient Italian needlework tradition in which the background is filled with embroidery stitches and the main motifs are outlined but not stitched. The name is derived from the Italian town of Assisi where the modern form of the craft originated.

  8. Suzhou embroidery - Wikipedia

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    Suzhou embroidery, Su embroidery or Su xiu ( simplified Chinese: 苏绣; traditional Chinese: 蘇繡) is the embroidery created around the city of Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. It is one of the oldest embroidery techniques in the world and is the most representative type of art in Chinese embroidery. One of the well-known "four great embroideries of ...

  9. MrBeast, YouTube's biggest star, acknowledges past ... - AOL

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    MrBeast, YouTube's biggest star and a philanthropic force with nearly unrivaled influence among young audiences, acknowledged Wednesday that he used “inappropriate language” in his early ...