Surface Embroidery Definition - Definitions for the Clothing & fabric Industry

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 Surface embroidery is any form of embroidery in which the pattern is worked using decorative stitches and laid threads on top of the foundation fabric or canvas rather than through the fabric; it is contrasted with canvas work.

Much free embroidery is also surface embroidery, as are a few forms of counted-thread embroidery such as cross stitch.

Forms of surface embroidery include:

Applique

Art needlework

Crewel embroidery

Cross stitch

Jacobean embroidery

Stumpwork

Examples of surface embroidery include:

Bayeux tapestry

Quaker tapestry



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The above article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Surface embroidery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).  9/5/06

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