Embroidery
Embroidery is the art of decorating fabric or other materials with designs stitched in strands of thread or yarn using a needle. Embroidery may also incorporate other materials such as metal strips, pearls, beads, quills, and sequins. Sewing machines can be used to create machine embroidery.
Qualifications
City and Guilds qualification[1] in Embroidery allows embroiderers to become recognized for their skill. This qualification also gives them the credibility to teach. For example, the notable textiles artist, Kathleen Laurel Sage,[2] began her teaching career by getting the City and Guilds Embroidery 1 and 2 qualifications. She has now gone on to write a book on the subject.[3]
Embroidery Media
- Kantha (Quilt) LACMA AC1994.131.1.jpg
Traditional Nakshi Kantha of Bangladesh
- Alice Maywood sampler - DPLA - 2557c943b8ce3dce40b0fc265d5765ad (page 1).jpg
Embroidery sampler by Alice Maywood, 1826
- Bayeux Tapestry scene55 Eustach.jpg
Laid threads, a surface technique in wool on linen. The Bayeux Tapestry, 11th century
- Chinese silk, 4th Century BC.JPG
Detail of embroidered silk gauze ritual garment. Rows of even, round chain stitch used for outline and color. 4th century BC, Zhou tomb at Mashan, Hubei, China.
- A pair of Chinese shoes for bound 'lily' feet Wellcome L0035542.jpg
A pair of Chinese shoes for bound 'lily' feet
- Elizabeth1book.jpg
Embroidered book cover made by Elizabeth I at the age of 11, presented to Katherine Parr
- Cross stitch embroidery.jpg
en:Cross-stitch en:embroidery. Tea cloth border, black and red cotton floss, Hungarian, mid-twentieth century.*Black and red cross-stitch patterns are characteristic of the folk embroidery of eastern and central en:Europe. Photo by Paula Kate Marmor, 12 November 2005.
References
- ↑ "Creative - City & Guilds". www.cityandguilds.com.
- ↑ "A Little About Me".
- ↑ "Embroidered Soldered and Heat Zapped Surfaces by Kathleen Laurel Sage Embroidered Soldered and Heat Zapped Surfaces". Archived from the original on 2015-07-16. Retrieved 2015-04-27.
Other websites
- The Crimson Thread of Kinship Archived 2007-08-30 at the Wayback Machine at the National Museum of Australia
