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English Embroidery - I - Double-Running or Back-Stitch - Louisa F. Pesel
ENGLISH EMBROIDERY—I
DOUBLE-RUNNING
OR
BACK-STITCH
By
LOUISA F. PESEL
Author of Practical Canvas Embroidery
Stitches from Old English Embroideries
Stitches from Eastern Embroideries
Stitches from Western Embroideries
Leaves from my Embroidery Book
WITH A PREFACE BY
MISS ETTA CAMPBELL
Teacher of Embroidery in the School of Art, Winchester
Embroidery
Embroidery is the handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with needle and thread or yarn. Embroidery may also incorporate other materials such as metal strips, pearls, beads, quills, and sequins. An interesting characteristic of embroidery is that the basic techniques or stitches on surviving examples of the earliest patterns—chain stitch, buttonhole or blanket stitch, running stitch, satin stitch, cross stitch—remain the fundamental techniques of hand embroidery today.
In The Art of Embroidery, written in 1964 by Marie Schuette and Sigrid Muller-Christensen, they noted the ‘striking fact that in the development of embroidery . . . there are no changes of materials or techniques which can be felt or interpreted as advances from a primitive to a later, more refined stage. On the other hand, we often find in early works a technical accomplishment and high standard of craftsmanship rarely attained in later times.’ Embroidery has been dated to the Warring States period in China (5th-3rd century BC). The process used to tailor, patch, mend and reinforce cloth fostered