Hand Embroidery Special – Forbidden Stitches from China!
0 Comments Published January 8th, 2006 in Amazing Embroidery Designs, Hand Embroidery Designs
Forbidden Stitch also known as the Seed Stitch or Blind Stitch is a Chinese form of hand embroidery, where the embroidery designs are done through small knots made on the fabric surface by wrapping a heavy embroidery thread, usually silk floss, around a needle and then stitching it down. This is an ancient form of embroidery and early relics of this stitch have been found in an Eastern Han tomb at Nuoyinwula, Outer Mongolia and also in Linzi, Shandong Province. If you notice the example next to this post, each knot is separate, looped once around the needle, fairly flat and closed and a series of rows of such knots would form the embroidery design. Tough time-consuming work indeed!
You could go through these couple of resources – the first gives the technique of forbidden stitches with images – Marlamallett and the second gives some practical examples of embroidered shirts – Vintage Textile.
But careful while experimenting – it is forbidden
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