All About Embroidery

Embroidery and most other fiber and needlework arts are believed to originate in the Orient and the Middle East. Primitive humanity quickly found out that the stitches used to join animal skins together could also be used for decoration. In 1964, a Cro-Magnon Hunter's fossilized remains, 30,000 BC, was found in a tomb in Sungir near Vladimir, Russia. His fur clothing, boots and hat were heavily decorated with hand stitched horizontal rows of ivory beads. 

  

Chinese bead embroidery in Siberia, 5000 and 6000B.C include elaborately drilled shells stitched with decorative patterns on animal heads. Mosaics of Byzantium, 500A.D, depict embroidery of clothing with silk thread, stones and pearls. It is possible the Chinese thread embroidery from 3500B.C. was the genesis of thread, embroidery, as we know it today. 

  

Written history, sculptures, paintings and vases show people in different ancient civilizations had wire embroidered clothes back over 3000 years, including those found in Greece 400B.C., and Babylon and Syria, 700A.D. Archaeological excavations at Ur, 1544, showed a high standard of thread embroidery from ancient times as a pure gold embroidered thread and woven shroud in the tomb of Empress Honorius dating 400A.D. The gold wires were melted down and weighed 36 pounds in pure metal. It is a pity that such a historical point was destroyed. 

  

During the 1100's, smaller seed beads were sewn on vellum to decorate religious subjects and from 1200's through 1300's beads were embroidered on clothing. In 1500A.D embroidery had become more lavish in Europe, as well as the other areas of the world. From this period through the 1700s up thread and bead embroidery gained popularity. Bead embroidery can be found at layette baskets, court dress, furniture and many other topics. 

  

Develop FreeHand sewing thread embroidery began to dwindle with the machine age by 1800, when Art needlework and Berlin wool-work appeared on the scene and flourished with the Victorian era. Berlin wool-work, a linen thread, embroidery, was popular through the 1870s only to be replaced in popularity as counted cross stitch of the 1880s, using square canvas with stitch-by-stitch thread design. With the introduction of printed patterns in color, it was necessary to count each stitch passé in many cases. In preparing FreeHand thread embroidery was declining in popularity, beadwork was beginning his heyday with the new embroidery stitches from the 1800s. 

  

When techniques for the production of small beads and bead drilling holes evolved, beads were more commonly used in embroidery with the invention of fine steel needles. Art movements and the social and economic events influenced beadwork designs, including beadwork. 

  

Wire and bead embroidery can be found on ornamentals wear and home furnishings of people throughout the world. Thread embroidery includes hundreds of stitches. Today, complex thread embroidery patterns for chic metallic thread and beads used by sewing machines in addition to hand-sewn. 

  

Bead embroidery has been here for years. But there is no known beadwork samples closely relates to the many well-known thread embroidery stitches. There are hundreds of thread stitches which can be converted to beading and would not it be great to have a sample of them all? We will start some easy stitches and add more in the future Beadwork issues. We do beadwork history with this addition of embroidery stitch conversion from wire to beads. 

  

To begin to learn basic embroidery stitches, you'll draw a line (with a pencil or colored pen) in a piece of white cloth. You also need thread and needle practices. Remember practice, practice and practice. Practice makes perfection. 

  

1. Step: Working some herringbone or Fishbone stitch. 

  

2. Step: Work a second row. The foundation must be correct, otherwise the 3rd and 4 step can not function properly. Each bar in the herringbone at both ends must be either above or below the masks. Make bars once over and once under alternately to the end. 

  

3. Step: Work top row interlacing of threads up-tilted masks in the other. 

    

4: e step: Working the bottom row of interlacing threads of the downward sloping stitch in the second, after the exact direction of the stitches. 

  

The first row of stitches Fishbone second hand on it. While he worked in the second series of Fishbone stitches, the needle has gone into working title line of each stitch instead of over it. Bottom of the base for the first and second series should not be working in close because of interlacing threads on the first and second rows, weaving thread tends to pull the stitches together. The third series is the work by filling the upper or lower outline of a needle type nails. The fourth series completes the process by weaving in and out of each stitch until work is completed. Marash embroidery is very detailed embroidery. There can be no mistakes in work, or weaving will not come out perfect. First and second stitch Fishbone is the foundation stitches and will show on the back, all the rest of the weaving done on the surface. While he worked, third and fourth row are not pierce fabric. Push the needle between the structure and the existing nail. The Encyclopedia of Stitches Embroider by Marion Nichols, you can see a description of this mask, the author calls the nail German Interlacing or Maltese. Whatever it is called, this mask is derived from Armenia.