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  2. Bead embroidery - Wikipedia

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    Bead embroidery is a type of beadwork that uses a needle and thread to stitch beads to a surface of fabric, suede, or leather. Bead embroidery is an embellishment that does not form an essential part of a textile's structure. In this respect, bead embroidery differs from bead weaving, bead crochet, and bead knitting. Woven, knitted, and ...

  3. Bead knitting - Wikipedia

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    The classic approach is to thread beads on the yarn in advance. There are several ways to go about knitting the beads in though: slipping the stitch, putting the bead between stitches, and putting the bead on the stitch. The slip stitch method is to slip the stitch with the yarn (and bead) in front at the position where a bead is desired. The ...

  4. Feed sack dress - Wikipedia

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    The first use of fabric sacks can be traced to the early 19th century, when small farmers strapped a sack to the back of a horse to take their grain for milling. [2] The bags of the time were hand-sewn at home from rough cloth made of hand-spun yarn, sometimes stamped with the name of the farmer.

  5. Textile manufacturing by pre-industrial methods - Wikipedia

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    In order to make textiles, the first requirement is a source of fibre from which a yarn can be made, primarily by spinning. The yarn is processed by knitting or weaving to create cloth. The machine used for weaving is the loom. Cloth is finished by what are described as wet process to become fabric.

  6. Beadwork - Wikipedia

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    Beadwork is the art or craft of attaching beads to one another by stringing them onto a thread or thin wire with a sewing or beading needle or sewing them to cloth. [1] Beads are produced in a diverse range of materials, shapes, and sizes, and vary by the kind of art produced.

  7. Glossary of sewing terms - Wikipedia

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    A stitch is a single turn or loop of the thread or yarn in sewing, knitting, and embroidery. All stitches made with a sewing needle with an "eye" or hole are variations on seven basic stitches: running stitch, backstitch, overcast stitch, cross stitch, buttonhole or blanket stitch, chain stitch, and knot stitch. [30]

  8. History of sewing patterns - Wikipedia

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    Cut-out tissue paper patterns were included around 1881. [2] In the United States, Report of Fashion and Mirror of Fashions was founded in 1827, and by 1840 included patterns for men's clothing. [2] From the 1830s on, shops in England advertised paper sewing patterns for sale, initially for professional dressmakers but also available for home ...

  9. Timeline of clothing and textiles technology - Wikipedia

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    1949 – Heinrich Mauersberger invents the sewing-knitting technique and his "Malimo" machine. 1955 – Research begins on multi-phase weft insertion. Successful examples will not exist until the 80s and late 90s. [27] 1956 – Du Pont Introduces a process for spinning sheaf yarn, a precursor to air-jet spinning. [28] c. 1960s.