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Everything about Embroidery
Art or handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with needle and thread or yarn
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 needlework, a type of textile art, with origins dating back thousands of years across various cultures. Common stitches found in early embroidery include the chain stitch, buttonhole or blanket stitch, running stitch, satin stitch, and cross stitch. Modern embroidery continues to utilize traditional techniques, though many contemporary stitches are exclusive to machine embroidery. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: EmbroideryA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Machine embroidery of light-emitting textiles with multicolor electroluminescent threadsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Embroidery and tapestry weavingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Embroidery and Related Manufacturing Techniques for Wearable Antennas: Challenges and OpportunitiesCited 205 times
- Go sideways: CutworkA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Embroidery of IndiaA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The art of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to stitch thread or yarn.
Noun The ornamentation of fabric using needlework.
Noun A piece of embroidered fabric.
Noun The elaboration of an account, etc. with details, especially when fictitious.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Embroidery and Related Manufacturing Techniques for Wearable Antennas: Challenges and Opportunities
PEDOT:PSS-modified cotton conductive thread for mass manufacturing of textile-based electrical wearable sensors by computerized embroidery
The Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage from the Perspective of Civic Participation: The Informal Education of Chinese Embroidery Handicrafts
Additive Functionalization and Embroidery for Manufacturing Wearable and Washable Textile Supercapacitors
8500-year-old Late Mesolithic garment embroidery from Vlasac (Serbia): Technological, use-wear and residue analyses
Electromagnetic shielding using flexible embroidery metamaterial absorbers: Design, analysis and experiments
Flexible, durable, and washable triboelectric yarn and embroidery for self-powered sensing and human-machine interaction
High-Geometrical-Accuracy Embroidery Process for Textile Antennas With Fine Details
🆕 Influential since 2022
Machine embroidery of light-emitting textiles with multicolor electroluminescent threads
Active‐Textile Yarns and Embroidery Enabled by Wet‐Spun Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Filaments
Programmable and Scalable Embroidery Textile Resistive Pressure Sensors for Integrated Multifunctional Smart Wearable Systems
Investigation on material variants and fabrication methods for microstrip textile antennas: A review based on conventional and novel concepts of weaving, knitting and embroidery
Wide-range sensitive all-textile piezoresistive sensors assembled with biomimetic core-shell yarn via facile embroidery integration
📚 Books worth reading
Embroidery and tapestry weavingGrace Christie · 1906
Samplers and stitchesGrace Christie · 1920
Church needleworkHinda M. Hands · 1905
Art in needleworkLewis Foreman Day · 1900
EmbroideryGrace Christie · 1909
English garden embroideryStafford Whiteaker · 1986
The stitches of creative embroideryJacqueline Enthoven · 1964
The complete stitch encyclopediaJan Eaton · 1986
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🔗 Related topics
- Cutwork Cutwork or cut work, also known as punto tagliato in Italian, is a needlework technique in which portions of a textile, typically cotton or linen, are…
- Embroidery of India Embroidery in India includes dozens of embroidery styles that vary by region and clothing styles. Designs in Indian embroidery are formed on the basis…
- Needlepoint Needlepoint is a type of canvas work, a form of embroidery in which yarn is stitched through a stiff open weave canvas. Traditionally needlepoint designs…
- Chain stitch Chain stitch is a sewing and embroidery technique in which a series of looped stitches form a chain-like pattern. Chain stitch is an ancient craft – examples…
- Crewel embroidery Look up crewel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Crewel embroidery, or crewelwork, is a type of surface embroidery worked in wool. A wide variety of…
- Cross-stitch Cross-stitch is a form of sewing and a popular form of counted-thread embroidery in which X-shaped stitches (called cross stitches) in a tiled, raster-like…
- Darning Darning is a sewing technique for repairing holes or worn areas in fabric or knitting using needle and thread alone. It is often done by hand, but using…
- Korean embroidery Korean embroidery techniques and artifacts have a long history, but there is the most evidence from the Joseon Dynasty, after the 14th century in Korea…