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Linen towel with drawn threadwork accented with embroidery in stem and satin stitch.

Whitework embroidery is any embroidery technique in which the stitch and the foundation fabric (traditionally white linen) are of same color. Styles of whitework embroidery include most drawn thread work, broderie anglaise, Hardanger embroidery, Hedebo embroidery, Mountmellick embroidery, reticella and Schwalm. Whitework embroidery is one of the techniques employed in heirloom sewing for blouses, christening gowns, baby bonnets, and other small articles.

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Whitework embroidery

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Whitework embroidery is any embroidery technique in which the stitch and the foundation fabric (traditionally white linen) are of same color. Styles of...

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Hardanger embroidery

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drawn thread work techniques. It is sometimes called whitework embroidery. Hardanger embroidery gets its name from the district of Hardanger in western...

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Mountmellick embroidery

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Mountmellick embroidery or Mountmellick work is a floral whitework embroidery originating in the town of Mountmellick in County Laois, Ireland, in the...

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Embroidery

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collectively referred to as whitework. However, whitework can either be counted or free. Hardanger embroidery is a counted embroidery and the designs are often...

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Heirloom sewing

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narrow ribbon, and smocking, imitating such hand-work techniques as whitework embroidery, Broderie Anglaise, and hemstitching. Typical projects for heirloom...

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Candlewicking

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Candlewicking, or candlewick is a form of whitework embroidery that traditionally uses an unbleached cotton thread on a piece of unbleached muslin. It...

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Drawn thread work

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grouped with whitework embroidery because it was traditionally done in white thread on white fabric and is often combined with other whitework techniques...

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Pelerine

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muslin, silk, lace, or cottons such as cambric. They could be adorned with embroidery, beadwork, ruffles, or even featherwork, and often featured shaped border...

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Corded quilting

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era in America, corded quilting and trapunto were combined with whitework embroidery and other needlework techniques to produce a profusion of white-on-white...

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Outline of crafts

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Embroidery Canvas work Bargello Berlin wool work Needlepoint Counted-thread Blackwork Cross-stitch Whitework Surface embroidery Brazilian embroidery Candlewicking...

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Hedebo embroidery

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The term Hedebo embroidery covers several forms of white embroidery which originated in the Hedebo (heathland) region of Zealand, Denmark, in the 1760s...

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Baptismal clothing

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white linen or cotton fabric, and may be trimmed with tucks, lace, whitework embroidery, and other handwork. Baptismal gowns often have matching bonnets...

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Redwork

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saw the predominance of state birds and state flowers. Blackwork Whitework embroidery "Redwork | Museum Collections Up Close : MNHS.ORG". discussions.mnhs...

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Sylvia Pedlar

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produced in sheer flowing cotton, and reproduced nineteenth-century whitework embroidery by machine to such a high standard that her work rivalled luxurious...

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Buttonhole stitch

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needlelace. This stitch is well represented on 16th- and 17th-century whitework items. The buttonhole stitch appeared on the Jane Bostocke sampler (1598)...

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Broderie anglaise

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(French, "English embroidery", pronounced [bʁɔdʁi ɑ̃ɡlɛz]) is a whitework needlework technique incorporating features of embroidery, cutwork and needle...

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Margaret Swain

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embroidery and textile historian. Trained as a nurse in London, she began a career as a historian after noticing no history about Ayrshire whitework embroidery...

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Islamic embroidery

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Embroidery was an important art in the Islamic world from the beginning of Islam until the Industrial Revolution disrupted traditional ways of life. Early...

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Chemisette

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in the mid-19th century, and could be decorated with tucks, embroidery (especially whitework), or lace. When wide pagoda sleeves were fashionable (1850s)...

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Ida Winckler

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Winckler remained at the school as a teacher, developing embroidery patterns, especially for whitework, for use as educational aids in high schools. In 1930...

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Mrs Jamieson

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Margaret Swain, Ayrshire and Other Whitework (Shire Publications, 2001), p. 15. Gail Marsh, 19th Century Embroidery Techniques (Guild of Master Craftsman...

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Balochi needlework

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Balochi needlework (also known as Balochi embroidery; Balochi: گُد دۏچی) is a type of handicraft made by the Baloch people. It is considered a heritage...

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Hardanger

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development award), awarded by Innovasjon Norge. Hardanger embroidery is a type of whitework that takes its name from that region. It is made with geometric...

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Sewed muslin

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Ayrshire whitework industry was a victim of its own success, starting to decline from the 1830s onwards, after the patenting of the first embroidery machine...

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Cutwork

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that incorporate cutwork include broderie anglaise, Carrickmacross lace, whitework, early reticella, Spanish cutwork, hedebo, and jaali which is prevalent...

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Lace

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Cutwork, or whitework, is lace constructed by removing threads from a woven background, and the remaining threads wrapped or filled with embroidery. Knitted...

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Royal School of Needlework

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its Collection, including lace, silkwork, whitework, Jacobean embroidery and many other forms of embroidery and needlework.[citation needed] For its 150th...

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