What is Embroidery and 4 Different Types of Hand Embroidery


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Embroidery

Embroidery is the skill of decorating cloth or other materials using thread or yarn applied with a needle. Other materials, such as pearls, beads, quills, and sequins, may be used in embroidery. Embroidery is commonly found in dress shirts, and golf shirts in current times. Embroidery comes in a wide range of thread or yarn colors.

Embroidery is a manual work in which fabrics and textiles are decorated with needles and threads. The various embroidery techniques and styles differ considerably, the focus will be on free-style embroidery or colored embroidery.

This decorative embroidery method with its various stitches has worked independently of the material interweaving. It allows you to embroider any design, whether abstract or natural and representational, onto any fabric. Colored embroidery offers you fantastic flexibility in creating a beautiful design with colorful sewing threads and special textile fibers.

Types of Embroidery

●       Assisi Work

Assisi Work

Counted thread embroidery is done using the Assisi technique. Long-armed cross stitch or regular cross stitch is used to fill in the backdrop of an Assisi embroidery pattern while leaving the design’s central motif vacant. The technique is done on an even-weave linen (or empty). The various components of the pattern are surrounded by an outline sewn on. Backstitch or even outline stitches like stem stitch or outline stitch can be used to work this outline.

●      Blackwork

Blackwork

Blackwork has historically been applied to clothes. Blackwork often focuses on the diversity of filling patterns employed within the design parts. When examining blackwork from the 16th century, a design would have strong outline stitches for vines, leaves, and flowers, yet the inside of the leaves and flowers would be elaborately filled with lacy, mostly hexagonal arrangements.

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Blackwork was traditionally done with black thread on white or light linen at various points in history, but today it is frequently found on colored textiles and is done in a range of hues. Today, silks with different patterns are a common option for blackwork.

Numerous filler patterns are frequently used in blackwork, which is typically stitched in the Holbein stitch, which resembles backstitch but is actually reverse running stitch. Running stitch is used to complete the pattern in one direction, with a stitch gap between each stitch. The embroiderer then crafts the motif in a reverse manner, completing the gaps with additional running stitches.

Modern blackwork may be used to stitch lovely “picture” embroidery as well as the geometric patterns that are frequently created with it. Blackwork may be shaded at different depths by adjusting the filler stitches, patterns, and thread weight. Counted cross stitch and surface techniques are frequently blended with modern blackwork to good effect.

●      Mountmellick Embroidery

Ireland’s Mountmellick is where Mountmellick embroidery first appeared. It is a kind of whitework that is generally done with matte cotton threads on cotton sateen, which has a shine (no sheen). One aspect of the appearance of Mountmellick embroidery is the contrast between the cloth and the thread.

There are several different stitches employed in Mountmellick, and the majority of them give the cloth a highly textured appearance. Branches, flowers, and fruit are often the motifs seen in Mountmellick needlework.

●      Needle Lace

Needle Lace

Although embroidery stitches are utilized on most varieties of needle lace, needle lace is not usually an embroidered technique. Lace may be constructed in a variety of methods, including using bobbins, tapes, crochet hooks, and normal needles.

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 Needle lace is lace fashioned with a needle and thread, usually on a fabric base and often with cloth peeled loose. Some varieties of needle lace are created on paper or tissue rather than fabric, and once completed, the piece of needle lace is affixed to the cloth. Some needle lace is produced on a net background (either square netting like fillet netting, or tulle).

As well as some needle lace is usually a collection of bobbin lace and stitching.

There are several different forms of needle lace and many different names for it, such as Rose Point, Point de Gaze, Ruskin Lace, Armenian Lace, Filet Lace, Reticella, Punto in Aria, Gros Point de Venise, Alencon Lace, and so on. All have unique qualities, and some are quite intricate and fine.

Needle lace is frequently used as inserts or edging in whitework.


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