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    Embroidery thread is yarn that is manufactured or hand-spun specifically for embroidery and other forms of needlework. Embroidery thread often differs...
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    Embroidery is the art of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to stitch thread or yarn. It is one of the oldest forms of textile art, with...
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    Counted-thread embroidery is any embroidery in which the number of warp and weft yarns in a fabric are methodically counted for each stitch, resulting...
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    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...
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    (zari) Rajasthani clothes Kutch cushion embroidery Aari work involves a hook, plied from the top but fed by silk thread from below with the material spread...
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    art of embroidery using metal threads. It is particularly prized for the way light plays on it. The term "goldwork" is used even when the threads are imitation...
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    embroidery is a form of counted-thread embroidery based on an ancient Italian needlework tradition in which the background is filled with embroidery stitches...
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    Cross-stitch is a form of sewing and a popular form of counted-thread embroidery in which X-shaped stitches (called cross stitches) in a tiled, raster-like...
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    the back side. The thread stroke on the front side produced by this is also called stitch. In the context of embroidery, an embroidery stitch means one...
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    कढ़ाई, चिकनकारी) is a traditional embroidery style from Lucknow, India. Translated, the word means embroidery (using thread or wire), and it is one of Lucknow's...
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    Brazilian embroidery is a type of surface embroidery that uses rayon thread instead of cotton or wool. It is called "Brazilian" embroidery because the...
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    entwined with the second thread to form a lock stitch. The front side thread, or embroidery yarn, is held on a spool, or rather a creel of spools. A boat-shaped...
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    embroidery or "Hardangersøm" is a form of embroidery traditionally worked with white thread on white even-weave linen or cloth, using counted thread and...
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    of whitework embroidery include most drawn thread work, broderie anglaise, Hardanger embroidery, Hedebo embroidery, Mountmellick embroidery, reticella and...
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    materials used for the embroidery consist of fabrics made of threads of cotton, silk woolen and mashru (an Arabic name). The types of threads used are of floss...
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    form of embroidery generally worked in black thread, although other colours are also used on occasion, as in scarletwork, where the embroidery is worked...
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    these terms are used. However, thread is most often used to mean materials fine and smooth enough for sewing, embroidery, weaving, or making lace or net...
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    Bead embroidery is a type of beadwork that uses a needle and thread to stitch beads to a surface of fabric, suede, or leather. Bead embroidery is an embellishment...
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    and filament silk embroidery thread. Tools are: stretch frame, hand board, scissors, embroidery needle and tape measure. Su embroidery has strict requirements...
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    needed] Crewel embroidery is not identified with particular styles of designs, but rather is embroidery with the use of this wool thread.: 102  Modern...
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    on leather belts. Craftsmen embroidered items with gold and silver thread. Embroidery cottage industries, some employing over 800 people, grew to supply...
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    border of embroidery on the neckline edge itself. The embroidery colors are green, yellow, orange, pink, and most predominantly, red. The thread is silk...
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  • marking, Tussar silk, casement cloth, and embroidery threads such as moon thread or rangoli or anchor thread. The motifs are designed by the women sewing...
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    Sashiko (category Embroidery stitches)
    thread and the abundant nature of cheap, indigo-dyed blue cloth in historical Japan, sashiko has a distinctive appearance of white-on-blue embroidery...
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    These machines may have multiple heads and threads. Before computers were affordable, most machine embroidery was completed by punching designs on paper...
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    used in sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery, ropemaking, and the production of textiles. Thread is a type of yarn intended for sewing by hand...
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    of thread while minimizing fabric friction. Appliqué: These are considered another all-purpose needle for sewing, appliqué, and patchwork. Embroidery: Also...
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  • Hunan embroidery is particularly famous in embroidering with silk thread, and the patterns have a high sense of reality. In 2006, Hunan embroidery was selected...
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    Tatreez (category Embroidery)
    such as indigo or madder,  were used to color the embroidery thread. The cross-stitch embroidery style is known as fallaḥi, from the Arabic word denoting...
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    mirrors, shells and beads. Zardosi, a special type of embroidery with a silver or golden thread, is also very famous throughout Sindh. Mirrorwork (Shishe...
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