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  2. Cross-stitch - Wikipedia

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    Cross-stitch sampler, Germany Cross stitching using a hoop and showing use of enamel needle minder. Cross-stitch is a form of sewing and a popular form of counted-thread embroidery in which X-shaped stitches (called cross stitches) in a tiled, raster-like pattern are used to form a picture.

  3. Cross stitches - Wikipedia

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    Detail of cross stitch embroidery from Sweden. Cross stitch sampler with alphabets, crowns, and coronets, 1760 Cross stitch in canvas work. Cross stitches in embroidery, needlepoint, and other forms of needlework include a number of related stitches in which the thread is sewn in an x or + shape.

  4. Sampler (needlework) - Wikipedia

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    An American sampler: "Margaret Barnholt her sampler done in the twelth [sic] year of her age 1831". English band sampler featuring 'boxers', c. 1650 A needlework sampler is a piece of embroidery or cross-stitching produced as a 'specimen of achievement', [1] demonstration or a test of skill in needlework.

  5. Counted-thread embroidery - Wikipedia

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    Counted cross-stitch embroidery, Hungary, mid-20th century. Counted-thread embroidery is any embroidery in which the number of warp and weft yarns in a fabric are methodically counted for each stitch, resulting in uniform-length stitches and a precise, uniform embroidery pattern. [1]

  6. Assisi embroidery - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, Assisi embroidery was rarely executed in cross-stitch but was most often in long-armed cross-stitch. Examples employing other stitches, such as Italian cross-stitch and Algerian plait stitch, are also known. The colours of thread used were red, blue, green or gold for the background and black or brown for the outlines.

  7. Stitchers' storybooks share town's history - AOL

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    The Boston Stitchers have made an embroidered book telling the history of the town.

  8. Embroidery - Wikipedia

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    Cross stitch or tent stitch: Linen or cotton canvas, wool floss or yarn Blackwork: England: Backstitch, Holbein stitch, stem stitch Linen or cotton fabric, black or red silk thread Brazilian embroidery: Brazil: Bullion knots, cast-on stitch, drizzle stitch, French knots, featherstitch, fly stitch, stem stitch Cloth, rayon thread Broderie ...

  9. ‘It’s tedious. It’s dirty. It’s not fun:’ Searching for ...

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    A week after wind-whipped wildfires began their deadly rampage through Southern California, investigators search for clues into what started the devastating blazes. The answers may take months or ...

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