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While the petitpoint stitch will be produced only with silk threads you use for the other stitch forms normally colored wool, if there aren’t excluded on it silk, gold threads or sew in pearls. Other kinds of stitchery are: the chain stitch, where every stitch will be made double while the thread goes back trough the same hole from below to above, forming a loop, trough which it is pulled after it comes trough a new hole at the top again. The backstitch: where will be made a long stitch at the lower side of the textile. Grip back about the half of the elongation of the same at the above side. So, that each stitch is the double as above at the below side. In contrary use result the stern stitch again. Other kinds of stitching (e.g. double stitch, grade stitch or Spanish stitch) are described in the book “Lipperheide, Muster altitalienischer Leinenstickerei” (Berlin. 1881-85, 2 Bde.).

The form of gold work, popular in medieval, which brings so amazing impression as you can see at the Vienna preserved, the so called burgundian vestures, from the 15 century, is technically very different to ours today. While gold thread will be handled like other threads, they laid them parallel side by side and stitch them with stitch down in former times. On the so at first formed ground was made the real stitchery with a satin stitch, where the gold gleams trough (relief stitchery). The nowadays gold and silver kannetille stitchery draws nearer to the beadwork. These in a row stitch down of cheap glass beads have contributed a lot to the ruin of art, by making the basic material more heavy and inflexible. For the artistic value is the preparatory drawing of the pattern important, which is seldom an invention of a producer of a stitchery. The producing of the patterns became in contrast to a special sector of dessinateure or designer of patterns. A own form of the stitchery is the tamburieren, which you don’t knit wit a sewing needle but with the crochet hooks as at the back of the hand of fine glacee gloves. Further will be decorated fines leather goods very tender trough the backstitch of the sewing machine notably in the USA.

Linen embroidery

The linen embroidery restricted of decorating of clothes and table linen in canvas or cotton (therefore its named linen stitchery), apart from the stitchery of names and drawing of the cloths. In the so called French linen embroidery dominated the satin stitch, at the English dominated the broken trough work bind hole stitch but to use on both come the languetten stitch and different phantasy stitches. The Venetian linen embroidery is close to the lace stitchery, where get off in place the ground after the work so that the break trough sites will be filled trough fine thread plaiting. The linen embroidery is the matter of the industry in west Europe; In Germany it is practiced with lace machines in broad way, especially in the Saxon Vogtland, namely in Plauen (forerunner of the Plauener lace), at the adjoining regions of the Ore Mountains and in Oberfranken (in Bavaria). The traditional form of this lavish handcraft it is practiced near the Schwalm in Nordhessen in Germany. The center of the German machine stitchery is the city Plauen and vicinity since 1890, which was known trough the Plauener lace.

Source: Wikipedia