🪡🧵 What is Embroidery?

My favourite type of crafting

Embroidery is the art of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to apply thread or yarn. Embroidery may also incorporate other materials such as pearls, beads, quills, and sequins. In modern days, embroidery is usually seen on caps, hats, coats, overlays, blankets, dress shirts, denim, dresses, stockings, scarfs, and golf shirts. Embroidery is available in a wide variety of thread or yarn colour. It is often used to personalize gifts or clothing items. Some of the basic techniques or stitches of the earliest embroidery are chain stitch, buttonhole or blanket stitch, running stitch, satin stitch, and cross stitch.Those stitches remain the fundamental techniques of hand embroidery today.

embroidered big red flower and small blue dainty flowers with green leaves on a white cotton fabric
a view of an assortment of multi colour thread spindles neatly lined-up. embroidery flowers on a black canvas sneaker canvas close-up with a pattern being added mid stitch with a green thread.a mixed assortment of embroidment items: different coloured threads, needles, buttons, a 2D embroided fox, a cute 2D embroided cartoon cat on thick canvas; and asorted related items. embroidment hoop, containing a work in progress, of a tree with detailed leaves ands purple blossoms. close-up of embroidment needles in a pin cushion a close-up of embroided lace in botantical inspired pattern in vibrant pinks and oranges. close up of red florals on denim