Embroidery is the art or handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with needle and thread or yarn.

Embroidery is available with a wide variety of thread or yarn color.

She organised some 37 women in her Leek School of Art Embroidery to collaborate working from a full-scale water-colour facsimile drawing provided by the South Kensington Museum The full-size replica was finished in 1886 and is now exhibited in the Museum of Reading in Reading, Berkshire, England .< ref name = reading >

Assisi Embroidery is a form of counted-thread embroidery which has been practised in Assisi since the 13th century.

Cross-stitch is used for the background and Blackwork Embroidery, i. e. Holbein stitch is then used to outline the motif and create the surrounding decorative scrollwork.

Blackwork Embroidery is a form of embroidery using black thread.

A famous example of appliqué is the Hastings Embroidery.

Crewel Embroidery, or Crewelwork, is a decorative form of surface embroidery using wool and a variety of different embroidery stitches to follow a design outline applied to the fabric.

The Hastings Embroidery is worked in applique by hand, with the addition of couched threads and cords, tweed from Scotland, fabrics from the Victoria and Albert Museum, and feathers from London Zoo.

The Hastings Embroidery is currently in storage, and apart from two panels on permanent display in the Town Hall, can not be viewed, despite local campaigns to protest.

The central traditional event is called Đakovački vezovi ( Đakovo Embroidery ).

File: Borduurring. jpg | Embroidery that is not needlepoint often uses soft cloth and requires an embroidery hoop.

Embroidery is common on traditional clothing, particularly women's clothing.

Embroidery is often limited to prominent points, such as cuffs, hats and scarves.

Embroidery is also used for the decoration of fabric.

The Dabaoji Palace of the Baisha Fresco where is very close to the Baisha Naxi Hand-made Embroidery Institute was built in the year 658AD in the Tang Dynasty ( 618 AD to 960 AD ).

Lower Sunbury is the home of the Sunbury Millennium Embroidery which was conceived and designed in the 1990s and completed in 2000.

Since July 2006 its permanent home is the purpose-built Sunbury Millennium Embroidery Gallery, in the well-tended, free-to-visit Walled Garden adjoining Sunbury Park.

The town is also home to the Millennium Embroidery, a large commissioned artwork that commemorates Sunbury's ascension to the new millennium.

Broderie Perse ( French for " Persian Embroidery ") is a style of applique embroidery which uses printed elements to create a scene on the background fabric.

Embroidery and applique is a social activity, a time for women to sit together and exchange views and news.

Embroidery is a form of needlework.

This town is commonly referred at the " Embroidery National Capital ", for its large embroidery industry, which started in the 1960's with descendants from Madeira Island, and really developed after 1974, when City Hall promoted the first " Embroidery Fair ", at the City Stadium.

Queen Elizabeth II visited the Embroidery in 2001 and a dedicated gallery for it was built in 2006.

Embroidery stitches are also called stitches for short.

* Embroidery thread, machine or hand-spun yarn for embroidery

Embroidery floss is generally a six ply yarn, for example.

* Vinciolo, Federico: Renaissance Patterns for Lace, Embroidery and Needlepoint, Dover Books, 1971.

Embroidery styles for smock-frocks varied by region, and a number of motifs became traditional for various occupations: wheel-shapes for carters and wagoners, sheep and crooks for shepherds, and so on.

Embroidery may also incorporate other materials such as metal strips, pearls, beads, quills, and sequins.

The art of Embroidery became an important aspect of Ottoman Empire | Ottoman culture.

Street had co-written a book on Ecclesiastical Embroidery in 1848, and was a staunch advocate of abandoning faddish woolen work on canvas in favour of more expressive embroidery techniques based on Opus Anglicanum, a surface embroidery technique popular in medieval England.

Elizabethan Embroidery.

Embroidery, School of Traditional Arts.

Assisi Embroidery, London: Batsford, 1988.

Blackwork and Holbein Embroidery: Book Two, Self-Published ; Second edition 1981.

Elizabethan Embroidery.

The Art of Blackwork Embroidery, Mills & Boon, 1975.

Blackwork Embroidery, Dover Publications, 1976.

Embroidery Ideas from Blackwork, Kangaroo Press Ltd., 1999.

* New Anchor Book of Blackwork Embroidery Stitches, David & Charles, 2005.

Blackwork Embroidery: Design and Technique, B T Batsford Ltd ; 2nd edition 1990.

* Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving, by Grace Christie, 1912, from Project Gutenberg.

* The Anchor Book of Hardanger Embroidery, complied by Sue Whiting.

Berlin Work, Samplers & Embroidery of the Nineteenth Century, Lacis, 1996.