Embroidery Digest
Information about types of embroidery.
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Embroidery
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Thousands of years of stitching, all types of stitch and the basic principles, and the basic patterns and the basic stitches. Easy, relaxed, no pressure, no age limits, no competition, just needle, thread, fabric and stitches.
Mindful Stitching
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For some, this is harder than you think! Even those adept at embroidery. That’s because we often sit with our current project and aim to get a specific amount done within that hour, or that session etc., or perhaps we’re already thinking of our next project.
Maybe we’re the type of person who simply cant switch off from life when were completing a general stitch project and that adds pressure.
Slow stitch and mindful stitching have become increasingly popular over the past few years, and particularly through Covid, when people needed distraction and purpose and a positive mental health mindset. Stitch is invaluable for that.
3d Beaded Embroidery
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Beaded embroidery has been popular within couture circles for many, many years, but 3d embroidery is slowly becoming more popular within embroidery circles.
Learning how to create tiny sculptures with various sizes and shapes of beads can take your own embroidery designs to a completely differently different level, or take you into a whole new genre of beadwork.
Sashiko
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Sashiko translated means ‘little stabs’. It is a traditional type of Japanese embroidery used for the functional repair or reinforcement of worn cloth or clothing. White cotton was comparatively inexpensive and was used on the indigo-dyed blue cloth of historical Japan leading to the distinctive appearance of the white-on-blue embroidery we have come to recognise.
Specific needles are used and sashiko thread which is non-divisible is used, and although traditional colours are still used, there is also a wide variety of colours also available.
The stitches are derived from nature and have beautiful Japanese names.
We now use Sashiko to decorate more than just being a functional repair group of stitches.
Blackwork
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Blackwork is a form of embroidery generally worked in black thread. Originating back in 1500 England, blackwork typically, though not always, takes the form of counted thread embroidery, producing uniform-length stitches and a precise pattern on even-weave fabric.
Blackwork does also incorporate free-stitch embroidery where the yarns within the fabric are not always counted. Tudor England was well known for Blackwork and portraits hung in our galleries of Henry VIII and his household demonstrate the fashion for ruffs and collars and sleeves and shirts to be embroidered with blackwork.
Modern blackwork is colourful and fun and can be just as intricate, but uses embroidery cottons and not silks.
Hardanger
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Hardanger is form of counted thread and drawn thread techniques stitched on white evenweave cloth using white thread. It gets its name from the district of Hardanger in Western Norway where it flourished.
The skill with Hardanger is in the cutting of areas that are formed to be safe to cut by the addition of specific stitches. These then can be stitched to form intricate patterns. It takes an enormous amount of care and precision to work on Hardanger patterns but the outcomes are exquisite and a well worth investment of your time.
Tatreez
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Tatreez is a form of Palestinian embroidery. It is a counted stitch embroidery that is incredibly beautiful and requires exceptional amounts of patience, dedication and precision. It is a 3000-year-old art form that uses stitches to tell stories using symbols including social and marital status and the village the stitcher originated from. It was traditionally stitched by women in groups with grandmothers passing the skill downwards, and young women stitching on their own wedding dresses. Nowadays men and women stitch on anything to keep the Palestinian story alive amidst the turmoil of war.
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