Embroidery Designs Guide

Here is a preview to a world class style of stitching - the Brazilian embroidery stitching technique. The Brazilian Dimensional Embroidery International Guild Inc began in 1991 with the single objective of promoting the art of Brazilian embroidery. This non profit organisation used the platform of seminars, newsletters, websites and workshops as a tool to popularise this amazing art.

Some of the stiching styles can be viewed at their web page. The popular stitch types are the bullion, buttonhole, drizzle, leaf, pistil and stem categories. As you notice, nature has played a large role in moulding this art. This technique of hand embroidery has been explained in detail at the instructions page of the above mentioned website. For example in the leaf stitch, the formation of the knots and anchoring towards the tip of the leaf has been explained lucidly. The drizzle stitch is a version of cast-on-buttonhole stitch, which can be plain (which creates a spiralling effect) or up-down (which creates a firm drizzle and does not spiral).