Caterina Mezzapelle
This embroidery stitch is also known as Vandyke chain stitch. It is a line stitch and filling used on plain-and even-weave fabrics and is suitable for use with any type of embroidery thread.
You can make decorative zigzag line-an unusual outline for a shape. Work in the same way as ordinary chain stitch, but each chain loop is set at right angles to the previous one to create the zigzag line. Continue reading…
This embroidery stitch is also known as double cable stitch Zigzag. It is a simple but effective variation of ordinary cable stitch. It is a line stitch and filling used on plain-and-even-weave fabrics.
The stitches are formed in exactly the same manner as cable stitch, but each one is worked at right angles to the previous one to make a zigzag line. When used as a line stitch, zigzag cable stitch is usually worked in straight lines, as it does not follow curves well. Continue reading…
Vandyke stitch is an attractive filling stitch often used for leaf shapes. It can also be worked as a border.
Up and Down Buttonhole Stitch is similar to German knotted buttonhole stitch but with a smoother, neater finish.stitch. This is also known as Mirrored buttonhole stitch, it is useful for outlines, but can also be used as an open filling stitch when parallel rows are worked close together.
Twisted chain stitch is a simple variation of chain stitch that involves twisting the thread while making the loop. When worked in a fairly thick thread it creates a braid-like texture, as can be seen on the leaf and flower stems in the Jacobean design opposite. Continue reading…
Scroll stitch is also known as single knotted line stitch, this kind of embroidery makes attractive border. Marking a line on the fabric will help keep the stitches straight. This stitch can be used on plain-and even-weave fabrics. It makes a simple knotted line that flows around curves and follows intricate details well; it is often used to depict areas of water.
Any type of embroidery thread can be used with scroll stitch, providing that it is compatible with the weight of the ground fabric. A floss thread gives a much flatter effect than a rounded thread, such as pearl or soft cotton. It is very quick and easy to use and runs from left to right along the line. Continue reading…
Open Cretan Stitch may be used for decorative borders and edgings and appliqué. For regular stitches, use evenweave, or mark fabric with four parallel lines.
This quick and easy embroidery stitch is a variation of chain stitch. It gives a ladder-like effect, it is also known as Roman chain or square chain stitch, ladder stitch, small writing (when the stitches are narrow) and big writing (when the stitches are wide).
Open chain stitch can be worked to give either an open or closed effect, to do it you can simply adjusting the spacing between parallel lines to make a heavy outline and can couch down cards, narrow embroidery thread or ribbons. Continue reading…
This embroidery stitch is also known as centipede stitch and knotted loop stitch. This is a line stitch and it is used on plain and even weave fabrics. It has a raised, plaited centre. and it is normally used on the straight, but it will follow a curve, providing that it is gradual.
Loop stitch can also be used to fill narrow shapes by varying the lenght of the outside stitches and outlining the shape with back stitch or stem stitch for greater definition. Continue reading…
Lazy Daisy Stitch is a very simple and easy way to work the petals of tiny flowers as small daisies or forhet-me-nots. One Lazy Daisy Stitch makes each petal.
Ladder Stitch is a kind of embroidery stitch used on plain-and even weave fabrics. It has a ladder-like appearance, hence the name, and it is used as a border stitch or to fill a long, narrow shape of varying width.
This stitch should always be worked on fabric stretched in an embroidery hoop or frame to prevent it form distorting the fabric.
When the stitch is worked in a straight line, guidelines may need to be drawn on the fabric, unless the fabric threads can be counted, to keep the line straight. The rungs of the ladder can be placed close together to achive a solid effect or can be spaced apart to give the stitch a more lacy appearance.
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This kind of embroidery stitch is a decorative variation of the regular buttonhole stitch or blanket stitch. Knotted Buttonhole stitch has a knot at the top of the edge.
Straight Stitch is shown as single, spaced stitches worked either in a regular or irregular manner. Sometimes the stitches are of varying size. The stitches should be neither too long nor too loose.
Stem stitch is one of the most popular outlining stitches.
You can use this stitch to utline flowers or to fill an area, unshaded leaves, and arabesque, and all conventional designs.
Work Straight Stitches across the shape as shown. If desired, Chain Stitch or Running Stitch may be worked first to form a padding underneath, to give a raised effect.
Aemilia Ars
June 29, 2009
Aemilia Ars is an exquisite needlelace, it was created during the period of Renaissance in Italy. Between the end of the XIX and early XX century, was born a prestigious school of applied art that promoted the upgrading Crafts .
Aemilia Ars Workshop founded in Bologna in 1898 by the Alfonso Rubbiani (1848ò1913) , artist, architect, restorer, designer, poet and lawyer in order to recover, distribute and market the arts in Emilia. This initiative was supported by Count Francesco Cavazza, other nobles and in particular by the Countess Lina Cavazza, noblewoman that from her personal collection was made available antique lace for the study and revival of the now lost techniques.
Countess Lina Cavazza, besides devoting herself to numerous charitable works, committed herself to generating a female industry which could guarantee well-paid work to women and at the same time affirm social and human values.
Modelled on the English Arts and Crafts Movement its formal name was Società Cooperativa Aemilia Ars. At first the workshop produced a wide range of products, including glass and pottery, but from 1902 to 1914 its principal product were textiles, especially lace. This firm was the first to link the archeological recovery of styles – especially Renaissance – with its experience in restoration.
In the field of embroidery and lace, Aemilia Ars first of all retraced its sources, such as the old pattern-books by Antonio Tagliente (Esempio di ricami, 1528), or by Nicolò Aristotele (Universali dei belli ricami, 1530), and then studied antique paintings in order to reproduce the lace works depicted therein.
Old needlepoints were revived, for example the a reticella point of the fifteenth century, which had enjoyed great popularity in France since the reign of Henry IV.
The “visible architecture” of this point revealed its Italian origin even in the copies made foreign lacemarkers; a quality which was enhanced even further in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period which Ojetti judged as being “without style”. At the Milan Exhibition of 1906, Aemilia Ars displayed the philological skill of its workers by exhibiting to the Piccolomini family.
In the early 900s, during the two world wars, Bologna was protagonist of an economic miracle called “aemilia ars”.
Characterized by a technical virtuosity equal or superior to that of the earlier models that inspired it, this activity represents the only expression of the liberty style in the sector.
The bolognese exhibition is intended as a contribution and stimulus to the classification, recovery, and conservation of a part of the city’s heritage still too little known.
The memory of this work is entrusted to insufficiently appreciated collections surviving in schools of music, women’s training institutes, and professional schools, as well as in church and private collections.
Source: www.comune.bologna.it
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