Embroidery is the craft of decorating fabric with thread or yarn using a needle. It has a long history dating back 30,000 years, with early examples found in Russia and China. Various stitches were used throughout history to create embroidery designs. Modern embroidery still uses traditional materials like thread, needles, and fabric, though machines and computer software have made the process easier. This document provides instructions for a class on hand embroidery, including recommended stitches to try like running stitch, backstitch, and French knot. Students are encouraged to design their own 4x4 inch patches and experiment with color mixing in their embroidery designs.

1. Embroidery

2. What is
Embroidery?

3. Embroidery: is the handicraft of
decorating fabric or other
materials
with needle and thread or yarn.

4. History:
In 1964, a hunter’s fossil dating back to 30,000
B.C was found in Cro-Magnon, Russia. The fur
clothing along with his boots and hat were heavily
decorated with handmade stitches of ivory bead
Chinese thread embroidery dates back to 3500
B.C which is still prevalent today. Chinese bead
embroidery dates back to 6000 B.C that had
drilled shells stitched with decorative designs into
animal hides. At around 500 A.D, embroidery with
silk thread along with precious stones and pearls
was practiced in China.

5. Machine embroidery emerged with the
industrial revolution. It also brought in new
varieties of yarn like rayon apart from
cotton and wool. Computers brought in
embroidery software with digitized patterns
to finish the texture and designs in the
clothing.
Even though technology has made
embroidery work easy, but there has not
been much change in the materials or
techniques in the history of embroidery that
can be actually claimed as an
advancement from the primitive stage to
the present.

6. Tools for Embroidery
Needle
Thread
Embroidery hoops and frames
Your design

7. What will we be doing?
We will be creating our own
embroidery patches.
Maximum of 4in x 4in. (can be bigger
see me)
Experimentation with color mixing.

8. So what is experimentation
with color?

9. It is where you put colors next to another to
create an effect.
This can be fades, color mixing , tone
change, light to darks. Any type of color
mixing. (think about how you make
secondary colors)

10. Hand Embroidery

12. Running Stitch

13. Backstitch

14. Couching Stitch

15. Outline Stitch

16. Chain Stitch

18. Videos of stitches to try.
Fish bone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz
ObvihZF2Q
Bullion knot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS
UV9F4RGNg
French knot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1
Cq24d5-8s

19. The running stitch.
https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=W4nhj8kMp
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20. Things to try.

21. Remember to fill the full area.

22. When you feel ready you can try
and create your own type of
stitch.

23. You can draw
your own
image on
cloth and then
fill it as you
go. So you
never feel
lost.
Make sure to
fill the full
areas of the
picture (see
the foot and
how it is filled
in)

29. So what should I make?:
Think about things you like. Such as...
Landscapes
Animals
A quote with an object
A family crest
Any ideas?

30. What you should do right
now:
1. Take your note books out and start
drawing ideas for your design.
2. Measure out a 4x4 circle or square
to work in. this will be the size of your
design.
3.Use colored pencil and sharpie to
make your design. –make sure it is
very detailed.
4. Find a piece of fabric you would
like to use. From the box.