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  2. Embroidery thread - Wikipedia

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    Matte embroidery cotton (or its French name, coton à broder) is a matte-finish (not glossy) twisted 5-ply thread. Medici or broder medici is a fine, light-weight wool thread formerly manufactured by DMC Group. Metallic embroidery threads are threads with metallic elements; these may be synthetic or real metal. Metallic threads range from a ...

  3. Embroidery - Wikipedia

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    Embroidery is the art of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to stitch thread or yarn. Embroidery may also incorporate other materials such as pearls, beads, quills, and sequins. In modern days, embroidery is usually seen on hats, clothing, blankets, and handbags. Embroidery is available in a wide variety of thread or yarn ...

  4. English embroidery - Wikipedia

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    The Butler-Bowdon Cope, 1330–1350, V&A Museum no. T.36-1955.. The Anglo-Saxon embroidery style combining split stitch and couching with silk and goldwork in gold or silver-gilt thread of the Durham examples flowered from the 12th to the 14th centuries into a style known to contemporaries as Opus Anglicanum or "English work".

  5. Couching - Wikipedia

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    Couching is also characteristic of Japanese metal-thread embroidery and Central Asian suzani work. Another example of Islamic embroidery is the strong tradition of couching stitch in Palestine . Production centered on Bethlehem and its two neighbouring villages Beit Sahour and Beit Jalla ; it was used for wedding dresses and formal wear.

  6. Opus Anglicanum - Wikipedia

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    Red velvet with silk and metallic thread and seed pearls; length 5ft. 6in. (167.6cm), width 30in. (76.2cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. One particularly fine example is The Adoration of the Magi chasuble from c. 1325 in red velvet embroidered in gold thread and pearls at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

  7. Goldwork (embroidery) - Wikipedia

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    Goldwork is always surface embroidery and free embroidery; the vast majority is a form of laid work or couching; that is, the gold threads are held onto the surface of the fabric by a second thread, usually of fine silk. The ends of the thread, depending on type, are simply cut off, or are pulled through to the back of the embroidery and ...

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