Needle, Thread and Knot (Italian: Ago, Filo e Nodo) is a public artwork in two parts by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen in Piazzale Cadorna, Milan...
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with 2 lines, green and red, of the Milan metro network. Piazzale Cadorna is famous for the giant sculpture Needle, Thread and Knot (Ago, filo e nodo)...
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Surgical suture (redirect from Surgical needle)
together and approximate wound edges after an injury or surgery. Application generally involves using a needle with an attached length of thread. There...
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Claes Oldenburg (category Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters)
work known as Needle, Thread and Knot (Italian: Ago, filo e nodo) which was installed in 2000 in the Piazzale Cadorna. In 2001, Oldenburg and van Bruggen...
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Embroidery stitch (section Knotted stitches)
the movement of the embroidery needle from the back of the fibre to the front side and back to the back side. The thread stroke on the front side produced...
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Tatting (redirect from Knotted work)
by a pattern of rings and chains formed from a series of cow hitch or half-hitch knots, called double stitches, over a core thread. Contemporary tatting...
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were sometimes made either with bobbins or needle and thread, which gave greater control over the threads. Gimp trim was then sewn down to form designs...
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Chain stitch (section Machine sewing and embroidery)
silk thread have been dated to the Warring States period (5th – 3rd century BC). Handmade chain stitch embroidery does not require that the needle pass...
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Lace (section History: Bobbin and needle lace)
joined and embellished with needle or bobbin lace. Tatting is a textile craft consisting of a series of knots and loops arranged with a shuttle or needle based...
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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 origins...
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Nålebinding (section General and cited references)
simplest form, the needle is passed through a seed loop to form a new loop, taking care to avoid tightening either into a firm knot. The needle is then passed...
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single turn or loop of thread, or yarn. Stitches are the fundamental elements of sewing, knitting, embroidery, crochet, and needle lace-making, whether...
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Bead stringing (section Knotting)
pearls is a well-known example of this technique. Pearls are threaded onto silk, and a knot is tied between each one to not only space them for greater...
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Filet lace (category Needle lace)
on knotted net (or in French broderie sur filet noué). It is a hand made needlework created by weaving or embroidery using a long blunt needle and a thread...
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Armenian needlelace (category Needle lace)
known as Bebilla, Nazareth Lace and Knotted Lace) is a pure form of needle lace made using only a needle, thread and pair of scissors. Like lacis, or...
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Units of textile measurement (redirect from Thread count)
produced by weaving, knitting or knotting textile fibers, yarns or threads, is measured in units such as the momme, thread count (a measure of the coarseness...
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flowers formed using both knotted and cast on stitches. Rayon thread, which is smooth and shiny, makes it easier to pull the needle through the wrapped stitches...
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Eye splice (redirect from Eye (knot))
a type of circular loop at the end of a thread. There are several techniques of creating the eye with its knot tied back to the line, rope or wire. There...
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Hardanger embroidery (section Threads)
resembling wheels, spider's webs and dove's eyes. Picot: twisting the thread once round the needle before inserting the needle to produce a decorative loop...
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and Coosje van Bruggen, also termed their "large scale projects". Oldenburg (1929-2022) and van Bruggen (1942–2009) were married Swedish-American and...
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[5] and done with single thread and involves counting of each thread on the cloth. The patterns are stitched without knots, so that both sides of the...
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primarily by women, and entirely by hand without the use of machinery. The main manufacturing materials are motu needle and thread. Rentha is made on the...
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Sailmaker's whipping (redirect from Palm-and-needle whipping)
whipping is one of the most durable and stable of rope whippings known. According to The Ashley Book of Knots, "palm-and-needle whipping, or sailmaker's whipping...
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Net (device) (section Making and repairing nets)
comprises threads or yarns knotted and twisted into a grid-like structure which blocks the passage of large items, while letting small items and fluids pass...
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used. One traditional trussing method employs a very long trussing needle threaded with kitchen string. This technique is used to sew up the tail vent...
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many other kinds of thread, and it does not require the use of a sewing needle. Tiger tail has high ultimate tensile strength and is therefore extremely...
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Crochet (category Knots)
textile, and the hooked needle used to produce it. In 1567, the tailor of Mary, Queen of Scots, Jehan de Compiegne, supplied her with silk thread for sewing...
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clothing. Soutache is created by weaving a decorative thread around and between two parallel cords and completely covering the cores; this produces a piece...
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from Lucknow, India. Translated, the word means embroidery (using thread or wire), and it is one of Lucknow's best known textile decoration styles. The...
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the stitch and the foundation fabric (traditionally white linen) are of same color. Styles of whitework embroidery include most drawn thread work, broderie...
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