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2. Cross-stitch - Wikipedia

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   Cross-stitch sampler, Germany Cross stitching using a hoop and showing use of enamel needle minder. Cross-stitch is a form of sewing and a popular form of counted-thread embroidery in which X-shaped stitches (called cross stitches) in a tiled, raster-like pattern are used to form a picture.

3. Singer Model 27 and 127 - Wikipedia

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   Singer model 489510 buttonholer (complete kit) Because 27-series machines cannot natively sew a zigzag stitch, they cannot feasibly sew a buttonhole. To rectify this, Singer produced an evolving line of buttonholer attachments that mount on the machine's shank and provide the missing functionality.

4. Needlepoint - Wikipedia

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   Most commercial needlework kits recommend one of the variants of tent stitch, although Victorian cross stitch and random long stitch are also used. [28] Authors of books of needlepoint designs sometimes use a wider range of stitches. [29] [30] Historically, a very wide range of stitches have been used including: Arraiolos stitch for Arraiolos rugs

5. Sampler (needlework) - Wikipedia

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   A needlework sampler is a piece of embroidery or cross-stitching produced as a 'specimen of achievement', [1] demonstration or a test of skill in needlework. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It often includes the alphabet, figures, motifs, decorative borders and sometimes the name of the person who embroidered it and the date.

6. Leon Conrad - Wikipedia

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   Leon Conrad (born 15 September 1965) is a British polymath: writer, story structure consultant, educator, and specialist in historic needlework techniques known particularly for historically-styled blackwork embroidery designs.

7. Berlin wool work - Wikipedia

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   Berlin wool work is a style of embroidery similar to today's needlepoint that was particularly popular in Europe and America from 1804 to 1875. [1]: 66 It is typically executed with wool yarn on canvas, [2] worked in a single stitch such as cross stitch or tent stitch, although Beeton's book of Needlework (1870) describes 15 different stitches for use in Berlin work.