What is embroidery? Detailed answer

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What is embroidery?

Embroidery is the art of sewing decorative stitches on fabric. This is a very ancient art. The remains of embroidered clothes were found during archaeological excavations of the ruins of Assyrian and Persian cities. The Old Testament describes the beauty of embroidery on the festive clothes of the Jews in biblical times. In the Middle Ages, embroidery reached great heights.

The great Italian and Dutch artists drew blanks for tapestries, on which paintings were embroidered on biblical subjects. Noble women in their castles spent hours embroidering outfits for especially solemn occasions and bedspreads for the church altar. One of the most famous medieval embroideries is the Bayoq Tapestry depicting the Battle of Hastings. All the warriors, horses, griffins, phoenixes and monsters depicted on it are embroidered with woolen threads of eight shades on a linen cloth seventy meters long and almost fifty-five centimeters wide.

In the XNUMXth century, embroideries became very expensive - more expensive than their weight in gold!

In the XVIII-XIX centuries, the education of girls necessarily included learning the art of embroidery, which they practiced daily. They learned how to make various stitches on a piece of linen. Houses, animals, numbers, letters of the alphabet and even poems were embroidered on these samples. Finishing the embroidery, the girl indicated her name, age and the date when the work was completed. Each country had its own style of embroidery. In China and Japan, gold threads and silk were used for embroidery, with which dragons, flowers, birds and landscapes were embroidered on thin damask fabric.

In warm countries such as Italy and Spain, embroideries were bright and cheerful in color and pattern. France and Switzerland were renowned for their fine workmanship. There, embroidery was often done with white thread on a white background. In the Balkan countries, clothes and bedding embroidered with bright ornaments were inherited from generation to generation.

Author: Likum A.

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