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What is Embroidery ?Embroidery is an ancient variety of decorative needlework in which designs and pictures are created by stitching strands of some material on to a layer of another material. Most embroidery uses thread or wool stitched onto a woven fabric, but the stitches could be executed in, for example, wire or leather strands, and embroidery can be worked onto many materials. Non-woven traditional materials include leather and felt, but modern textile artists embroider on many non-traditional materials such as plastic sheeting. Often, specific embroidery stiches are used.
Some embroidery styles include:
- Assisi Embroidery
- Bargello or Florentine embroidery
- Blackwork Embroidery
- Bunka Shishu
- Canvas work
- Counted-thread embroidery
- Crewel embroidery
- Cross-stitch (can mean the particular stitch or a style of embroidery)
- Drawn thread work
- Goldwork
- Hardanger embroidery
- Stumpwork
- Tush kyiz (Kyrgyzstan)
- Whitework
