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2. Appliqué - Wikipedia

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   The programs have a machine stops during stitching to allow the user to switch threads. First, the fabric that will be the background and the appliqué fabric are affixed into the machine's embroidery hoop. The program is run and the machine makes a loose basting stitch over both layers of fabric. Next, the machine halts for a thread change, or ...

3. Mola (art form) - Wikipedia

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   This is achieved by using a thread the same color as the layer being sewn, sewing blind stitches, and sewing tiny stitches. The finest molas have extremely fine stitching, made using tiny needles. This closeup of a mola by Venancio Restrepo shows the layering of the different colors of cloth, and the fine stitching involved.

4. Machine embroidery - Wikipedia

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   The first zigzag sewing machine was patented by Helen Blanchard. [2] To create free-motion machine embroidery, the embroiderer runs the machine and skillfully moves tightly hooped fabric under the needle to create a design. The "feed dogs" or machine teeth are lowered or covered, and the embroiderer moves the fabric manually.

5. Chris Roberts-Antieau - Wikipedia

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   In the early 1980s, Roberts-Antieau began sewing three-dimensional sculptures of circus workers, trapeze artists, and male figures. [4] She then took an appliqué class, where she learned to develop her pencil sketches and paintings into fabric art. As a clothing designer, Roberts-Antieau founded her own company with a staff of fifteen. [5]

6. Glossary of sewing terms - Wikipedia

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   Interfacing is a common term for a variety of materials used on the unseen or "wrong" side of fabrics in sewing. Interfacings support the fashion fabric ("shell fabric") of the garment and may be selected to change the hang of the fabric in some portions of the garment; for instance, a shirt collar has an interior stiffening from interfacing.

7. Pipili appliqué work - Wikipedia

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   The base cloth includes water proof material for umbrellas, velvet for tents, cotton, and threads. [6]Mythical and natural figures are used for the work, including peacocks, ducks, parrots, trees, elephants, creepers, flowers such as jasmine and lotus, the Sun, half-moon, and Rahu (a mythical demon who once swallowed up the sun).