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Free-motion quilting is a process used to stitch the layers of a quilt together using a domestic sewing machine with the feed dogs lowered, with a darning foot installed. When the feed dogs are lowered they do not advance the fabric ; and with the darning foot merely hovering over the layers, the operator controls the stitch length as well as ...
Longarm quilting is the process by which a longarm sewing machine is used to sew together a quilt top, quilt batting and quilt backing into a finished quilt.. A complete longarming system typically consists of a sewing machine head, a frame, a table with a layer of plastic (under which is placed a pantograph), and several rollers on which the fabric layers and batting are attached.
Hand quilting is still practiced by the Amish and Mennonites within the United States and Canada, and is enjoying a resurgence worldwide. Quilting machine in Haikou, Hainan, China. Machine quilting is the process of using a home sewing machine or a longarm machine to sew the layers together. With the home sewing machine, the layers are tacked ...
The word repoussé is French and means "pushed up", ultimately from Latin pulsare, which means "to push".Repoussage is the noun to refer to the technique, with repoussé being an adjective referring to a piece to which the technique has been applied (e.g. "repoussé work", "repoussé piece").
In the 19th century, hot stamping became a popular method of applying gold tooling or embossing in book printing on leather and paper. [5] The first patent for hot stamping was recorded in Germany by Ernst Oeser in 1892. [2] From the 1950s onward, the method became a popular means of marking plastic . [4]
Calendering of textiles is a finishing process used to smooth, coat, or thin a material. With textiles, fabric is passed between calender rollers at high temperatures and pressures.
Heat setting is a term used in the textile industry to describe a thermal process usually taking place in either a steam atmosphere or a dry heat environment. The effect of the process gives fibers , yarns or fabric dimensional stability and, very often, other desirable attributes like higher volume, wrinkle resistance or temperature resistance.
Embossing (manufacturing), commercial scale embossing of sheet metal; Image embossing, the process to create highlights or shadows that will replace light/dark boundaries of an image; Leather embossing; Paper embossing, the raising of paper and other non-metal products using specific tools to accomplish the task