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  2. Embroidery - Wikipedia

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    Embroidery. Laid threads, a surface technique in wool on linen. The Bayeux Tapestry, 11th century. 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.

  3. Drawn thread work - Wikipedia

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    Drawn thread work. Drawn thread work is one of the earliest forms of open work embroidery, and has been worked throughout Europe. Originally it was often used for ecclesiastical items and to ornament shrouds. [1] It is a form of counted-thread embroidery based on removing threads from the warp and/or the weft of a piece of even-weave fabric.

  4. Blackwork - Wikipedia

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    Blackwork in silk thread on linen was the most common domestic embroidery technique for clothing (shirts, smocks, sleeves, ruffs, and caps) and for household items such as cushion covers throughout the reign of Elizabeth I, but lost popularity as a technique by the 17th century. [b] Historic blackwork embroidery is rare to find well-preserved ...

  5. Hardanger embroidery - Wikipedia

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    Hardanger embroidery or "Hardangersøm" is a form of embroidery traditionally worked with white thread on white even-weave linen or cloth, using counted thread and drawn thread work techniques. It is sometimes called whitework embroidery. Hardanger embroidery gets its name from the district of Hardanger in western Norway, where it was known ...

  6. Crewel embroidery - Wikipedia

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    Crewel embroidery, or crewelwork, is a type of surface embroidery using wool. A wide variety of different embroidery stitches are used to follow a design outline applied to the fabric. The technique is at least a thousand years old. [citation needed] Crewel embroidery is not identified with particular styles of designs, but rather is embroidery ...

  7. English embroidery - Wikipedia

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    The Butler-Bowden 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".

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