The Beauty of Embroidery
What is embroidery?
Embroidery is a craft 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, blankets, dress shirts, denim,
dresses, stockings, and golf shirts. Embroidery is available with a
wide variety of thread or yarn colour.
Some of the basic techniques or stitches of the earliest embroidery
are chain stitch, buttonhole or blanket stitch, running
stitch, satin stitch, cross stitch. Those stitches remain the
fundamental techniques of hand embroidery today.