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Embroidery
Also called Needle embroidery
Embroidery builds images and patterns with needle and thread on a supporting material, with many regional traditions and stitch types. Direction, density and raised layers give it a relief unlike printing, while fine silk or coarse yarn creates different effects across clothes, furnishings and independent fibre art.
- Kind
- Technique
- Lineage
- Textile and fiber surfaces
- Related styles
- 4
- Medium family
- Printmaking, traditional arts and regional crafts
- Medium
- Textile
- Technique
- Embroidery
- Light
- Side light
Key traits
- 01Stitches build outlines, fills or texture
- 02Thread, stitch and ground remain distinct
- 03Regional traditions require separate attribution
Prompt
[subject], an original embroidery design on a plain woven ground, carefully placed threads building directional stitch fields, restrained changes in stitch length, visible thread sheen and slight relief, clean spacing between motifs, raking light revealing the textile structurePrompt not yet validatedApproved samples earn +10 points