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2. Crazy quilting - Wikipedia

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   The term "crazy quilting" is often used to refer to the textile art of crazy patchwork and is sometimes used interchangeably with that term. Crazy quilting does not actually refer to a specific kind of quilting (the needlework which binds two or more layers of fabric together), but a specific kind of patchwork lacking repeating motifs and with ...

3. Patchwork - Wikipedia

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   A unique form of patchwork quilt is the crazy quilt. Crazy quilting was popular during the Victorian era (mid–late 19th century). The crazy quilt is made up of random shapes of luxurious fabric such as velvets, silks, and brocades and buttons, lace, and other embellishments left over from the gowns they had made for themselves. The patchwork ...

4. Machine embroidery - Wikipedia

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   Machine embroidery is used by hobbyists and crafters to decorate gifts, clothing, and home decor. Examples include designs on quilts, pillows, and wall hangings. There are multiple types of machine embroidery. Free-motion sewing machine embroidery uses a basic zigzag sewing machine. Designs are done manually.

5. Glossary of textile manufacturing - Wikipedia

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   crazy quilt Crazy quilting is the textile art of patchworking. crinoline Crinoline was originally a stiff fabric with a weft of horse-hair and a warp of cotton or linen thread. The fabric first appeared around 1830. Cross-stitch Cross-stitch is a popular form of counted-thread embroidery in which X-shaped stitches are used to form a picture ...

6. Featherstitch - Wikipedia

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   Cretan stitch is characteristic of embroidery of Crete and the surrounding regions. [3] Open Cretan stitch or faggoting is used in making open decorative seams and to attach insertions. Feather stitch embroidery arose in England in the 19th century for decorating smock-frocks. It is also used to decorate the joins in crazy quilting.

7. Hawaiian quilt - Wikipedia

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   Queen Liliuokalani Quilt, ʻIolani Palace. Hawaiian quilters have also made quilts using other styles and techniques, such as embroidery and crazy quilting. The most famous Hawaiian crazy quilt is the one made by Queen Liliuokalani during her internment after the overthrow of the monarchy.