Types of embroidery: an overview of the variety handmade art
Content
- Popular types and methods of embroidery
- Less well-known kinds of embroidery
- Embroidery using special materials
- Russian folk types of embroidery
- National kinds of embroidery
- Video: embroidery with golden threads
In this material, we invite you to familiarize yourself with the variety of types of existing embroidery.
We will look at both common and well-known handicrafts, as well as the peculiarities of national types of creativity in different countries of the world.
Surface
Cross-stitch
"Richelieu"
"Hemstitch"
Machine embroidery
Popular types and methods of embroidery
smooth surface
Since ancient times, craftswomen have used satin stitch to decorate clothes, bed linen, towels, and tablecloths. To work, you only need a needle, threads and warp, correctly selected in thickness.
Cross and half-cross
This type of embroidery does not require any special skills. But special needles are needed: with a blunt end and preferably with an oval, gilded eye. You can embroider
or wool, on a special canvas or linen, linen. Cross embroidery is used to decorate clothes, wallets, bed linen, and embroider paintings.
Richelieu
This embroidery is also called openwork stitch.The cutwork technique requires patience, accuracy and perseverance. To work, you will need fabric that is not subject to deformation and special needles. Collars, blouses, and bed linen are embroidered using the cutwork technique.
Hemstitch, post, split, flooring and goat
A type of openwork embroidery with whichprocess the edges of napkins, tablecloths, and bed linen. The work requires dense fabric with threads pulled out in one direction. The remaining threads are arranged into various patterns. This is the so-called “counted embroidery”, in which you need to count the number of threads used.
Machine embroidery
Using special
You can create decorations for clothing and room decor. The embroidery technique is pre-programmed and you just need to select the types you like.
Less well-known kinds of embroidery
Diamond embroidery
Isothread
Soutache embroidery
"Rococo"
Bargello
"Buti" (butis)
Rather, it resembles a mosaic. For such embroidery need tweezers, a ruler, a ready set of "diamonds" and the canvas, which can be purchased at almost any store sewing.
bright, memorable. Products made using this embroidery technique amaze with their beauty. The “diamond” painting will decorate any interior.
Nitcography or isothread
The thread pattern is made on cardboard and velvet paper. Postcards, paintings, and boxes made using this technique are unusual and beautiful.
Soutache embroidery
For making jewelry using the soutache techniqueYou will need a flat stone, felt, beads or beads, the cord itself, a needle and thread. Pendants and decorative elements made using this technique are original and unique.
Rococo
The basis of embroidery is the “rococo” stitch: the thread is tightly wound around a thin needle and carefully pulled out, creating a twisted stitch.
Bargello
This sewing came to us from Italy. The secret of amazingly beautiful bedspreads, canopies, capes is in an endlessly repeating pattern, embroidered with a simple stitch and located parallel to each other.
Buti (butis)
Performed by white thread on white two layers of the same fabric. In the future, the space between the layers is filled with thick filaments and forms a convex pattern.
Hardanger
An original embroidery technique in which you can use only squares, rhombuses or rectangles, expressing your vision of the world around you through strict forms.
"Hardanger"
Monochrome embroidery
Welt embroidery
Black embroidery
Stitch embroidery
Brazilian embroidery Monochrome embroidery
Using threads of only one color, but of different thicknesses, or diluting the base color with several shades, you can get an expressive and bright picture.
Welt embroidery
Variety
- the outline of a small design is applied with stitches, a slit is made in the center and the edges are trimmed with neat, identical stitches.
Black embroidery
This embroidery is done with thin black threads on white or light fabric, but the design is not completely filled. The combination of black and white parts creates an amazing effect.
Stitch embroidery
This openwork embroidery technique is based onfilling with a grid pattern. Sewing is similar to guipure. Stitch embroidery in the form of a ribbon is used to decorate clothes, bed linen, and tablecloths. On large projects, sewing is usually repeated from square to square. Stitch embroidery is quite diverse: large and small, white and colored.
Brazilian embroidery
This sewing is one of the types of voluminousembroidery The fundamental difference is that Brazilian embroidery is done using artificial silk. The predominance of motifs of flowers, fruits and animals makes the works made using the Brazilian embroidery technique bright, colorful and lively.
Embroidery using special materials
Beadwork
Sequin embroidery
Embroidery with rhinestones
Bugle bead embroidery
Ribbon embroidery Beads
National costumes, wallets, cosmetic bags, hats and simply elegant clothes are embroidered with beads, and paintings are embroidered.
Sequins
Sequins are used to decorate outerwear, bags, and national costumes.
Rhinestones
Sew-on rhinestones have become widespread when decorating clothes, costumes for performances, wallets, and bags.
Bugle beads
Just like beads, sequins and rhinestones are used to decorate and embroider pictures, as well as create fringe.
Ribbons
For such embroidery, it is better to use canvas; ribbons can be very different: silk, satin, nylon and even corrugated. Tapestry needles with a wide eye and a blunt tip are needed.
Silk on silk
One of the most beautiful and complex embroideries has arrivedto us from Ancient China. Craftsmen at that time used “needles as thin as hair.” Sophisticated and elegant, double-sided embroidery looks the same on both sides.
Silk embroidery
Wool embroidery
Crochet embroidery
Embroidery with metallic threads
Embroidery applique Wool
Using special embroidery wool and needles, combining different stitches, you can easily and quickly embroider beautiful three-dimensional pictures and decorate outerwear.
Hook
Using a regular hook and floss threads, you can decorate a cosmetic bag, wallet, pincushion, napkins and tablecloths with patterns or flowers.
Metal threads
Metal threads made frompolyester base and braided thin wire or foil, thick but flexible. Therefore, they are most often sewn on top of fabric, decorating outerwear, bags, and wallets.
Embroidery applique
By sewing pieces of fabric onto the base, trimming them with various stitches or cords, you can decorate outerwear and bags.
Russian folk types of embroidery
Krestetskaya embroidery
Permogorsk painting
Petrikovskaya painting
Gorodets gold embroidery
Olonets embroidery Krestetskaya openwork (Novgorod)
One of the most complex openwork embroideries, based on the weaving of a large mesh and pattern, performed using specially prepared warping threads.
Permogorsk painting
The embroidery repeats the colorful designs of ancient
, which still delights us with its picturesqueness and cheerfulness.
Petrikovskaya painting
The fabulous Petrykivka painting, which gives a second life to the inhabitants of wildlife, is embodied in this embroidery.
Gorodets gold embroidery
Antique and unique gold embroideryGorodets craftswomen served as decoration for clothes in wealthy merchant families. Such clothes were kept and passed on by inheritance, like a real jewel.
Olonets sewing
Originating in the Russian North, sewing is done with white threads on a white fabric. The finished product is a silhouette located on a grid.
Oryol list
Ancient embroidery done without knots and, inmostly with red threads. According to an ancient legend, craftswomen embroidered patterns that formed on window panes in winter. Hence the fluidity of the design, the abundance of circles and spirals.
Gzhel, Khokhloma
The embroideries repeat the patterns of ancient Russian paintings and are made in a color characteristic of each of them.
Nizhny Novgorod guipure
An amazingly beautiful ornament is obtained when
with square cells. The use of only white threads and filigree openwork make Nizhny Novgorod guipure recognizable all over the world.
Kadomsky Veniz
Russian craftswomen from Kadomi, trained by Venitian nuns, created unique fabulous embroidery: the most delicate lace that adorned the clothes of noble people.
Oryol list
Gzhel embroidery
Nizhny Novgorod guipure
Kadomsky VenizTypes of embroidery using different types of seams
So sheathe seam edge of the fabric, placing them perpendicular to the hem.
stalked
The seam forms a series of closely adjacent oblique stitches.
A continuous series of loops, which is the basis of such a seam is used for sewings along the contour of the more complex patterns.
Nodular
Used to core flowers or edging other embroidery.
Velvet
Rugs and capes are embroidered with such a tight seam with cut loops.
Spiral
Sewn with thick threads, the seam consists of eight stitches creating a spiral ring. Sometimes a pattern is also placed in the center.
Buttonhole embroidery
Stem stitch embroidery
Tambour
Knot embroidery
Embroidery with velvet stitch
Seam "Spiral"
National kinds of embroidery
Embroidery "Kruil"
Bukhara embroidery
Schwalm embroidery
Embroidery "Sheesha" Creweel (England)
A feature of embroidery that arose more than four hundredyears ago, is the use of yarn twisted from two threads of different thicknesses. The price of such yarn was very high and only noble people could afford such embroidery.
Bukhara gold embroidery
Luxurious and sophisticated Bukhara gold embroidery cannot be confused with anything else. Until now, embroidered skullcaps, shoes, and national clothes are highly valued in the East.
Schwalmskaya (Germany)
Schwalm embroidery with white threads on white is recognizable due to the use of simple motifs of flowers and animals and a stylized “tree of life”.
Shisha (India)
An original and unusual type of embroidery, withwhich uses sheathed shards of glass, mirrors, mica, and sequins. In the old days, poor people even used the shiny wings of insects. The bottoms of skirts, jacket lapels, handbags and cosmetic bags are decorated in this way.
Trapunto (Italy)
Volumetric, printed embroidery, which decorates handbags, wallets, and outerwear. With this technique, the stitches outline a convex silhouette.
Lace lace (Romania)
With this technique, the design is laid out with a cord,and the free space is filled with threads and a needle. The cords themselves are crocheted. Dresses, handbags, and belts are decorated with lace lace inserts.
Vichy or “chicken's feet” (Switzerland)
For this embroidery, checkered fabric is used. By embroidering it with various stitches, you can imitate a delicate and original lace fabric.
Hedebo (Denmark)
Embroidery is done on linen fabric using linen threads, while the cut out parts of the pattern are framed with various seams.
Embroidery "Trapunto"
Romanian lace lace
Vichy embroidery
Embroidery "Hedebo"Japanese types of embroidery
Embroidery "Kogin"
Embroidery "Sashiko"
"Temari"
"Kinusaiga" Kogin
The main motif of this embroidery is a rhombus, made with white threads on blue fabric.
Sashiko
The weave of regular needle-forward seams, joining multiple layers of fabric, was originally intended to strengthen clothing, making it layered and warm.
Temari balls
To create a surprisingly bright ball you needworkpiece and any multi-colored threads. By twisting the sectors of the ball in different directions, maintaining the symmetry of the pattern, you can get a wonderful decoration or toy.
Kinusaiga
The art of embroidering pictures with small pieces of silk came from Ancient Japan, where old kimonos were used for this.
Video: embroidery with golden threads
