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Glossary of Embroidery Techniques
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| Assisi - The background is embroidered, leaving the design unstitched.
Cross stitches are used to fill the background.
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| Bargello - Long stitches worked on canvas in vertical stitches, forming peaks or
points. By varying the colors, shaded effects can be produced. Also,
called flame work or Hungarian point.
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| Blackwork - Black thread on white or cream linen, defining geometric designs.
Stitches used are the back stitch, cross stitch and running stitch.
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| Canvas Work - Using an open, evenly woven mesh material called canvas, stitches of
various length and slant cover the canvas.
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| Couching - A series of tiny stitches is used to hold 1 or more threads in position.
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Counted Cross Stitch - The design is produced by counting threads. Each stitch is taken
over a definite number of threads. the fabric is must evenly.
Stitches used are back, cross, four-sided, hem and running stitches.
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| Cross Stitch - Covering a premarked pattern on a piece on cloth with cross stitches
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| Crewel - Sometimes called Jacobean embroidery. Embroidered stitches worked in wool yarns.
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| Cutwork - Parts of the design are cut away before or after the motif has been embroidered. Tiny running stitches are placed close to the edge to give a raised effect to the finished work.
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| Drawn Thread - Threads are removed from the embroidery material producing a lacy foundation to work the stitches.
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| Hardanger - Has Norwegian origins. It combines satin stitches with drawn thread and cutwork
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| Metal Thread Work - Use of gold and metalic threads. Often threads are couched in place.
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| Needlepoint - Technique of putting stitches on openwork mesh canvas so the canvas
is completely covered.
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| Needleweaving - Threads are pulled from the fabric and then replaced by weaving a
design pattern over and under the remaining threads.
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| Petit Point - Needlepoint worked in fine yarn on very small, single thread
canvas, usually about 20 meshes to the inch or smaller
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| Smocking - Small stitches are used to anchor fabric which has been gathered
into regular folds.
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| Stump Work - Padding is placed between two layers of fabric and using white
silken threads, designs are embroidered to produce a three
dimensional effect.
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| White Work - When various stitches are worked with white threads on white fabric.
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Bibliography
The Complete Encyclopedia of Stitchery by Mildred Graves Ryan - 1979 |
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copyright (c) 2000, 2003 by Susan Kaplan |