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The Cretan stitch derives its name from Crete, the largest Greek island in the Mediterranean Sea, home to one of the oldest civilizations (dating from at least the time of Homer’s Odyssey, around the eleventh century b.c.) and a rich legacy of embroidery.
The Portuguese stem stitch, a heavily textured line stitch, also is known as Portuguese knotted stem, Portuguese knot, and wrapped stem stitch.
PieceWork is thrilled to welcome Deanna Hall West back to our A Stitch in Time blog post series. Here are her latest four elegant embroidery stitches.
Researching the Roumanian stitch was very interesting but also confusing: This stitch has a number of aliases.
The rosette-chain stitch (Figures 1 and 2) belongs to the large chain stitch family because the working thread is looped on the surface of the background fabric and held in place by another stitch.
As PieceWork celebrates twenty-five years, let’s take a look back at the beginning. When Veronica Patterson wrote her editorial letter for the first issue, March/April 1993, she set the tone of the magazine for years to come.
The chevron shape was used extensively in heraldic flags, banners, and woven tapestries. Thread a needle and try embroidering chevron stitch.
The complex, counted-thread queen stitch (American) is also known as the rococo (English) and renaissance stitches.
The crown stitch is basically a fly stitch with the additional two straight stitches that further anchor the top-loop leg.
We now offer the fourth in our five-part series of Frances’s Knitted-Lace sampler re-creations, Mary Elizabeth’s “Lace No. 12.”
This week, we feature the second in a series of Frances’s re-creations, Mary Elizabeth’s Lace Insertion.
The story of Mary Elizabeth Greenwall Edie’s knitted-lace sampler book is included in the May/June 2016 issue of PieceWork. We asked Frances H. Rautenbach to re-create several of Mary Elizabeth’s samples.
