Embroidery

  • 111Backstitch — or back stitch and its variants stem stitch, outline stitch and split stitch are a class of embroidery and sewing stitches in which individual stitches are made backward to the general direction of sewing. These stitches form lines and are most… …

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  • 112Charles Germain de Saint Aubin — Illustration taken from L Art du Brodeur showing a method of embroidering with paillettes …

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  • 113Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum — Marilyn Leavitt Imblum, (born c. 1946) American cross stitch embroidery designer known especially for her Victorian angel designs. Her design business is Told in a Garden with her most famous designs sold under the product lines of Butternut Road …

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  • 114New World Tapestry — The New World Tapestry is the largest stitched embroidery in the world,[1] larger than the Bayeux Tapestry. It depicts English colonisation attempts in Newfoundland, North America, the Guyanas and Bermuda between the years 1583 and 1642, when the …

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  • 115Croatian national costume — from Vrlika. Part of a series on the …

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  • 116Choli — Woman in Choli Women in Choli CE 320 Gupta Empire …

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  • 1171500-1550 in fashion — Fashion in the period 1500 1550 in Western Europe is marked the age of nudity by voluminous clothing worn in an abundance of layers (one reaction to the cooling temperatures of the Little Ice Age, especially in Northern Europe and the British… …

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  • 118Cutwork — frill on a cotton petticoat. Cutwork or cut work is a needlework technique in which portions of a textile are cut away and the resulting hole is reinforced and filled with embroidery or needle lace. Cutwork is a related to drawn thread work. In… …

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  • 119Plainweave — In embroidery, plainweave is a technical category of woven base fabrics that are suitable for working certain varieties of embroidery. Plainweave fabrics have a tight weave and individual threads are not readily visible. Surface embroidery may be …

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  • 120Mary Elizabeth Turner — (1854–1907) was an English embroiderer who exhibited her work at the 1890 exposition of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, for which she wrote an essay on modern embroidery. Identified with the Arts and Crafts Movement, she was a founder of… …

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