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...

17th century. The term is usually used today to describe a form of crewel embroidery used for furnishing characterized by fanciful plant and animal shapes...

also popular. Some notable areas are textiles, carpets and rugs, crewel embroidery, phool kari, silverware, woodwork and papier-mâché, etc. Handicraft...

worsted wool called crewel on heavy linen for furnishings are characteristic of Jacobean embroidery. Pattern books for geometric embroidery and needlelace...

underlying fabric. Examples include crewel and traditional Chinese and Japanese embroidery. Counted-thread embroidery patterns are created by making stitches...

fiber types, colors and weights. Threads for hand embroidery include: Crewel yarn (also known as crewel wool or French wool): 26  is a fine 2-ply yarn of...

(1755–1845) was an English needle woman who exhibited her worsted embroidery or crewel embroidery in Leicester and London and was the school mistress of a private...

everyday language, a stitch in the context of embroidery or hand-sewing is defined as the movement of the embroidery needle from the back of the fibre to the...

imported. These ornate fabrics, as well as fabrics decorated with crewel embroidery, were used in curtains during the English Elizabethan and Jacobean...

fabric from raveling, buttonhole stitches are used to make stems in crewel embroidery, to make sewn eyelets, to attach applique to ground fabric, and as...

visible. Surface embroidery may be performed on plainweave, such as crewel work, goldwork, stumpwork, cutwork, and candlewicking. Embroideries that can be...

most economical bed hangings were plain or mechanically decorated. Crewel embroidery with wool was used to decorate bed hangings in England and the colonial...

free embroidery is also surface embroidery, as are a few forms of counted-thread embroidery such as cross stitch. Applique Art needlework Crewel embroidery...

Embroidery in India includes dozens of embroidery styles that vary by region and clothing styles. Designs in Indian embroidery are formed on the basis...

embroidery Brazilian embroidery Candlewicking Couching Crewel embroidery Goldwork Ribbon embroidery Sashiko Stumpwork Knitting Nålebinding Needlelace Patchwork...

is embroidered in the Bayeux technique. The tapestry is worked in crewel embroidery using woollen yarns on a handwoven woollen background. In addition...

Herringbone, fishbone, Van Dyke, and related crossed stitches are used in crewel embroidery, especially to add texture to stems, leaves, and similar objects....

Design historians have noted the similarities between palampores and crewel embroidery and suggested that English trends may have influenced what East India...

reviving American needlework from the 1700s. It was inspired by the crewel embroidery of 18th-century women who had lived in the Deerfield, Massachusetts...

typical fiber choices, often in lawn or voile. Smocking is worked on a crewel embroidery needle in cotton or silk thread and normally requires three times...

Church in Minneapolis, Baynes designed the world's largest pieces of crewel embroidery. In Baynes's later years commissions could be hard to come by - there...

Needle painting replicated the appearance of a painted subject through crewel embroidery, using worsted wool stitches to represent brush strokes. This required...

Balochi needlework (also known as Balochi embroidery; Balochi: گُد دۏچی) is a type of Balochi handicraft made by the Baloch people. It is considered a...

closure of bags for bulk products. Machine embroidery in chain stitch, often in traditional hand-worked crewel designs, is found on curtains, bed linens...

Rasht embroidery (Persian: رشتی‌دوزی, romanized: Rashti-duzi) is a Persian art and handicraft. It is a decorative felt panel with a fine detail chain stitch...

patchwork. Embroidery: Also known as crewel needles; identical to sharps but have a longer eye to enable easier threading of multiple embroidery threads...

rugs. Women used the same pattern books as they did for samplers and crewel embroidery.: 10–11  The wool yarn used was hand-dyed, and when rug backgrounds...

curtains, covers for seats, ..." The Bayeux tapestry is embroidered in crewel (wool yarn) on a tabby-woven linen ground 68.38 metres long and 0.5 metres...

Wilson-Heirloom Guild". Crewel embroidery. (1962) Craft of silk and gold thread embroidery and stump work. (1973) Erica Wilson's embroidery book. (1973) Erica...

1961. Its aim was to encourage and initiate a new standard for British embroidery design in both hand and machine work. The organisation was primarily responsible...