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Everything about Needlepoint
Textile artwork created with a needle and yarn on canvas or mesh
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 completely cover the canvas. Although needlepoint may be worked in a variety of stitches, many needlepoint designs use only a simple tent stitch and rely upon color changes in the yarn to construct the pattern. Needlepoint is the oldest form of canvas work. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: NeedlepointA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Needle-made laces and net embroideriesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Low frequency needlepoint-shape metamaterial absorber based on magnetic mediumCited 51 times
- Go sideways: Berlin wool workA closely related topic
- Go sideways: EmbroideryA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A craft involving pulling yarn, thread, or floss through a canvas mesh to produce a decorative design.
Noun An object made using that craft.
Verb To produce a decorative design by this means.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Low frequency needlepoint-shape metamaterial absorber based on magnetic medium
A formula to determine the lateral condylar guidance from intraoral needlepoint tracings
Evaluation of the mechanism for enhanced particle and VOC removal using needlepoint bipolar ionization technology
Point, Counterpoint, Needlepoint: The Tapestry in Margaret Cavendish's The Unnatural Tragedy
Vibration Characteristics of Magnetic Fluid Droplet Adsorbed to Magnetized Needlepoint in Alternating Magnetic Field
Needlepoint for Men: Craft and Masculinity in Postwar America
Jodi Eichler-Levine. Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis: How Jews Craft Resilience and Create Community. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 229 pp.
Eichler-Levine, Jodi.: Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis: How Jews Craft Resilience and Create Community
📚 Books worth reading
Needle-made laces and net embroideriesDoris Campbell Preston · 1938
New methods in needlepointHope Hanley · 1966
Picture it in needlepointJudy Clayton, Deborarh Dow · 1993
120 needlepoint design projectsCharles Barnes, David Blake · 1974
Felted feathered friendsLaurie Sharp · 2012
Needle-made lacesPat Earnshaw · 1988
Needlepoint made easyMary Brooks Picken · 1955
Needle LaceJill Nordfors Clark · 1999
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🔗 Related topics
- Berlin wool work Berlin wool work is a style of embroidery similar to today's needlepoint that was particularly popular in Europe and America from 1804 to 1875. It is typically…
- Embroidery 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…
- 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…
- English embroidery English embroidery includes embroidery worked in England or by English people abroad from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. The oldest surviving English…
- Bargello (needlework) Bargello is a type of needlepoint embroidery consisting of upright flat stitches laid in a mathematical pattern to create motifs. The name originates from…
- Sampler (needlework) A needlework sampler is a piece of embroidery or cross-stitching produced as a 'specimen of achievement', demonstration or a test of skill in needlework…
- Embroidery thread Embroidery thread is yarn that is manufactured or hand-spun specifically for embroidery and other forms of needlework. Embroidery thread often differs…
- 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…