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3 unusual facts about Embroidery


Ann Macbeth

St. Patrick's Church in Patterdale houses some of her embroideries.

Dompierre-aux-Bois

Embroidery was also an important activity with about 60 women working in this activity.

Spiridon Ilo

The mostly accepted version so far is that the flag was embroidered by his niece Marigo Posio.


Agnes of Solms-Laubach

Matthäus Merian made an embroidery of the countess with her husband and children.

Alejandra Dorado

In LASALASDELUCRECIA (an installation inspired on the legendary figure in the history of the Roman Republic. The title may mean Lucretia's Wings, or Lucrecia's Halls), she portrays the same image of herself in seven different modes of representation (oil painting, stencilling, embroidery, etc.) as Lucretia, holding a dagger against her naked chest.

Ashta Nayika

The Ashta-Nayika is a central theme in Pahari embroidery used to decorate the Chamba Rumal, especially produced in Chamba, Himachal Pradesh.

Astrid Andreasen

In 1970 she took a job as a therapist in Tórshavn hospital where she worked with mentally handicapped people, teaching them embroidery and other art forms.

Av Pak

Finally, popular Av Pak had its origin from The Kebaya worn in Java, Bali and Sunda which retained strongly on Embroidery like Av Pak.

Bastian Pagez

The 19th-century historian Agnes Strickland considered his court role as equivalent to the English Master of the Revels; in England he was Mary's chamber valet and designed her embroidery patterns.

Becky Stern

Her work combines traditional crafts like embroidery, knitting & jewelry-making with physical computing technologies like Arduino.

Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum

The Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum, founded by Dr. Young Yang Chung is an exhibition, educational, and research facility dedicated to advancing the knowledge and appreciation of embroidery and textile arts.

Dechencholing Palace

In 1957, King Druk Gyalpo Jigme Wangchuck commissioned a skilled artist named Lam Durlop Dorji of Bumthang to open an embroidery school at the palace, to instruct some 30 young monks in this field.

Embroidered patch

The embroidered patch manufactures is dominated by several long established companies such as the Chicago Embroidery Company (founded in 1890), Lion Brothers (founded in 1899), St. Louis Embroidery (founded in 1887), A-B Emblem, and Penn Emblem (founded in 1947).

Embroidery software

While a large majority of embroidery software is specific to machine embroidery, there is also software available for use with hand embroidery, such as Cross-stitch.

Holbein stitch

The stitch is named after Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543), a 16th-century portrait painter best known for his paintings of Henry VIII and his children, almost all of whom are depicted wearing clothing decorated with blackwork embroidery.

Kobar

Kobar Women Agricultural Society: Founded in 2003 by the Ministry of Labor, aiming to provide agricultural and embroidery services.

Lijiang

In ancient times, the Baisha Old Town used to be the center of silk embroidery in the southwest of China and the most important place of the Ancient Southern Silk Road, also called the Ancient Tea and Horse Road or Ancient tea route.

Machine embroidery

Brother Industries entered the embroidery industry after several computerized embroidery companies contracted it to provide sewing heads.

The major embroidery machine companies eventually adapted their commercial systems and marketed them to companies such as Janome for home use.

Mirosław Drzewiecki

In 1996 his figure evoked many controversies because his embroidery firm has falsified trade marks of Adidas and Nike.

Nike Flywire

Nike adapts Vectran fibers, which are produced by Kuraray, into embroidery threads, before use in the shoe.

Nouakchott

Salt, cement, insecticides, rugs, carpets, embroidery, and craft products are produced in Nouakchott, with the port also exporting copper.

Pierre Valet

Pierre Valet (1575-1650) of Orléans was a French botanical artist, engraver and embroidery designer.

Piteado

In Samayac municipality of Suchitepéquez department of Guatemala, there are people who also make original cactus thread embroidery products.

Rolls-Royce Ghost

It is a unique version of Ghost Extended Wheelbase inspired by the Golden Sun Bird Chinese artefact, with two-tone white and gold body colour scheme, gold coachline, gold grille, gold Spirit of Ecstasy, interior gold embroidery, light brown leather upholstery with white trim.

Schedel Arboretum and Gardens

the Schedels had acquired many lovely possessions which they wished to display, such as Persian carpets, a world-class Jade collection, hand-wrought teak furniture, prayer rugs, Japanese silk embroidery, and a thousand-year-old Bronze sculpture.

Smock

Smocking, an embroidery technique in which the fabric is gathered, then embroidered with decorative stitches to hold the gathers in place

Sookmyung Women's University

The Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum at Sookmyung Women’s University is an exhibition, educational, and research facility dedicated to advancing the knowledge and appreciation of embroidery and textile arts.

The Needle and the Damage Done

British Artist Pete Fowler's August 2013 solo exhibition, at Beach London Gallery, of cross-stich embroidery was titled 'The Needle and The Damage Done'

Traditional crafts of Assam

Apart from Sualkuchi / Xualkuchi, the centre for the traditional silk industry, in almost every parts of the Brahmaputra Valley, rural households produce silk and silk garments with excellent embroidery designs.

Velours du Kasaï

Traditionally, the weaving is done by men of the Shoowa from the Kuba ethnic group, while the embroidery is reserved to women.

Von Grüning

Von Grüning uses a staple of artistic Embroidery inspired mainly by Rococo/Victorian art and religious controversy.

Young Yang Chung

Chung was the curator of The Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum's inaugural exhibition, which traces the origins of silk embroidery in China and its dissemination throughout East Asia, and she will remain at the Museum as a director and curator, in addition to being a professor of graduate school of arts and designs.

Her legacy includes a body of groundbreaking publications such as The Art of Oriental Embroidery (1979) and Silken Threads: A History of Embroidery in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam (2005), as well as the Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum (C.E.M.), an exhibition, educational, and research facility she inaugurated in May 2004 at Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul, South Korea.


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