Surface embroidery

Traditional Chikankari Embroidery at a NYC based company. The city of Lucknow with its detailed architecture is synonymous with Chikankari embroidery.

A couple of years ago I was invited to take part in a local college program which was to be compiled of several courses on Fibre Art. My particular part in it was teaching embroidery. Since one of the issues that are very dear to my heart as an artist is the preservation of old traditions in art and crafts, I decided to design the course around several classic embroidery techniques. Crewel Embroidery My idea was to introduce the students to Cross Stitch, Crewel, Chain Stitch, Couching…

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You might remember that, last autumn, I was fiddling around a bit with some fun needle woven fillings that can be used to add color, texture, and pattern to large areas of embroidery. Needle weaving is pretty much just weaving embroidery thread on the surface of fabric. In concept, it’s not too complicated. But the ...

Index page for a Stitch Dictionary of hand embroidery stitch tutorials. A library of Illustrated step by step instructions for each stitch.

Grab your morning cuppa and let’s have a chat about surface embroidery! Terminology can be a huge source of confusion for beginning embroiderers, and even for stitchers who have been plying the needle for years. While there are lots of terminology lists with short definitions out there, I’ve always found that the one-line definition of ...

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Caftan made of linen, embellished with floral embroidery, button fastening, over fit. Composition: 55% LI, 45% CO

The fun thing about free style surface embroidery is that you can add texture and dimension here and there, just by changing up the stitches a bit. Flowers, for example, don’t have to be embroidered just in daisy stitch. Lines and borders sometimes need a bit more oomph to them than backstitch or stem stitch ...