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United States.
Early settlers in the American colonies brought their crafts from
Europe. For embroidery, vegetable-dyed, handspun linen thread was
probably used first, although wool and silk have also been found in
early sampler embroideries. In the late 18th century linen was replaced
by commercially spun cotton thread. Of the vegetable dyes, various
shades of blue obtained from home-cultivated indigo were the most
common.
Although American embroidery designs generally were derived from English
designs, they tended to be simpler. Among English styles that became
popular in the colonies was Turkey work; so called because of its
knotted pile imitating that of Oriental carpets, it was a type of canvas
work much used for upholstery. Quilting was also practiced in America
from early colonial times.
As the colonies prospered and resources such
as cloth became less scarce, the appliqué quilt became a favorite type,
with decorative embroidery stitches used to apply the pieces of colored
cloth that formed the designs. Samplers also were widely executed,
serving both as ornamental objects and as instructional tools whereby
girls learned the alphabet and numbers as well as their embroidery
stitches.
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All kinds of embroidery and cross stitch
designs for children mainly
Throughout the 19th century, needlework pictures were popular, the most
characteristic type being Berlin work. In the early 20th century a taste
for naturalistic design gave rise to shaded silk embroidery, worked in
flat satin stitch on linen in delicately shaded colors.
From the
mid-1960s to the early 1980s there was a renewal of interest among
needlework enthusiasts in working their own designs as well as prestamped designs of varying complexity; and by 1985 there were signs
that crewel work had been taken up again by those seriously interested
in embroidery crafts. Quilting has recently grown in popularity.
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