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Embroidery: A Brief History – Courtesy of Wikipedia
It’s the craft of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to apply thread or yarn. It may also incorporate other materials such as pearls, beads, quills, and sequins.
Currently, embroidery is usually seen on caps, hats, coats, blankets, dress shirts, denim, work-wear, uniforms, dresses, stockings, and golf shirts and it’s available with a wide variety of thread or yarn color.
Some of the basic techniques are chain stitch, buttonhole or blanket stitch, running stitch, satin stitch, cross stitch.
Those stitches remain the fundamental techniques to this day. The process used to tailor, patch, mend and reinforce cloth fostered the development of sewing techniques, and the decorative possibilities of sewing led to the art of embroidery. This decorative type of stitching, has been found worldwide and several early examples have been found. Works in China have been dated to the Warring States period (5th–3rd century BC).
Ancient Greek mythology has credited the goddess Athena with passing down the art of embroidery along with weaving, leading to the famed competition between herself and the mortal Arachne.