Appliqué is ornamental needlework in which pieces of fabric in different shapes and patterns are sewn or stuck onto a larger piece to form a picture or pattern. It is commonly used as decoration, especially on garments. The technique is accomplished either by hand or machine.
ビーズワークは、針と糸でビーズを布に縫い付ける技法です。ビーズは素材、形及びサイズが多岐に亘ります。その用途は宝飾品・装飾品、壁掛け等多岐に及んでいます。
Beadwork is the art or craft of attaching beads to one another by stringing them with a sewing needle or beading needle and thread or thin wire, or sewing them to cloth. Beads come in a variety of materials, shapes and sizes. Beads are used to create jewelry or other articles of personal adornment; they are also used in wall hangings and sculpture and many other artworks.
Chikan is a traditional embroidery style from Lucknow, India. Literally translated, the word means embroidery. The technique of creation of a chikan work is known as chikankari. Chikan is a delicate and artfully done hand embroidery on a variety of textile fabric like muslin, silk, chiffon, organza, net, etc. White thread is embroidered on cool, pastel shades of light muslin and cotton garments.
Cross-stitch is a form of sewing and a popular form of counted-thread embroidery in which X-shaped stitches in a tiled, raster-like pattern are used to form a picture. The stitcher counts the threads on a piece of evenweave fabric (such as linen) in each direction so that the stitches are of uniform size and appearance.
Drawn thread work is a form of counted-thread embroidery based on removing threads from the warp and/or the weft of a piece of even-weave fabric. The remaining threads are grouped or bundled together into a variety of patterns.
Kantha (also spelled Kanta, and Qanta) is a type of embroidery craft of South Asia, especially in the eastern regions of the Indian subcontinent, specifically in Bangladesh and in the Indian states of West Bengal and Odisha.
Shadow Stitch is a type of embroidery worked on semi-sheer or sheer fabric, with the bulk of the embroidery on the back of the design so that the color of the thread – or rather, a shadow of the color – shows through on the front of the fabric between two solid-colored outlines.
The stitch used in shadow work embroidery is essentially backstitch, but it is worked between two lines, alternating back and forth between the two lines with each stitch.
On the back of the fabric, the resulting closely worked herringbone stitch forms a layer of criss-crossing threads that shows through on the front of the fabric with just a hint of color between the backstitch outlines.
ハンドル刺繍(Handle stitch)は、押さえ金が輪の形状になっている専用のミシンを使います。テーブル下のハンドルで輪を操作し針先の方向を変え、下絵にそって布を動かしながら模様を刺繍する機械刺繍の手法です。機械刺繍と言っても、プログラムされたコンピューター刺繍とは違い、職人の経験と技によって生み出されます。できあがった刺繍ひとつひとつ表情が違う事こそ手仕事の証です。
Handle embroidery is a type of machine embroideries created by a Handle Operated Chain Stitch Embroidery Machine. This is different from computerized embroidery machine in the way the material is conveyed (longitudinally and transversally). With the easy to operate handle, unique patterns can be formed at ease with no special skills.
