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is done with crewel wool. This type of wool has a long staple; it is fine and can be strongly twisted. It is best to use a crewel needle to execute the...

are considered another all-purpose needle for sewing, appliqué, and patchwork. Embroidery: Also known as crewel needles; identical to sharps but have a longer...

Embroidery is the art of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to stitch thread or yarn. Embroidery may also incorporate other materials...

cut fabric from raveling, buttonhole stitches are used to make stems in crewel embroidery, to make sewn eyelets, to attach applique to ground fabric, and...

products. Machine embroidery in chain stitch, often in traditional hand-worked crewel designs, is found on curtains, bed linens, and upholstery fabrics. Variations...

often followed suit, though with less dense stitching to preserve scarce crewel wool. Examples of bed hangings can be found in museums and historic homes...

1941) "Reflections in a Tablespoon" (Neither Man Nor Dog 1946) "The Crewel Needle" Lilliput 1953) "The Sympathetic Souse" (Lilliput 1954) "The Queen of...

2002 Hanging by a Thread - 2003 Cutwork - 2003 Crewel Yule - 2004 Embroidered Truths - 2005 Sins and Needles - 2006 Knitting Bones - 2007 Thai Die - 2008...

Mary Linwood (1755–1845) was an English needle woman who exhibited her worsted embroidery or crewel embroidery in Leicester and London and was the school...

Stem stitch or outline stitch Split stitch – the needle pierces the thread as it comes back up Crewel stitch - one of the easiest and most useful stitches...

fiber choices, often in lawn or voile. Smocking is worked on a crewel embroidery needle in cotton or silk thread and normally requires three times the...

stumpwork, a pictorial style featuring detached and padded elements, and crewel work, featuring exotic leaf motifs worked in wool yarn. Canvaswork, in which...

on a frame and stitching is done with a long needle ending with a hook such as a crewel, tambour (a needle similar to a very fine crochet hook but with...

form of their art known as 'needle painting'. Needle painting replicated the appearance of a painted subject through crewel embroidery, using worsted wool...

curtains, covers for seats, ..." The Bayeux tapestry is embroidered in crewel (wool yarn) on a tabby-woven linen ground 68.38 metres long and 0.5 metres...

by reviving American needlework from the 1700s. It was inspired by the crewel embroidery of 18th-century women who had lived in the Deerfield, Massachusetts...

17th-century England these hand painted cotton fabrics influenced native crewel work design. Shipping vessels from India also took palampore to colonial...

meetings ranging from lectures on the Church of England to displays of crewel embroidery. There were also medical talks, including, on 1 March 1842, a...

Scholehouse for the Needle (1632). Slip motifs are also seen in blackwork embroidery, worked in silk, and in Jacobean embroidery and crewel embroidery in silk...

enhanced lighting for tapestry tracers and better methods of crewel-work stitching and needle threading. Her career progressed into working for Harrods and...