What is cut work and its various forms?
From Mary Thomas’s Embroidery Book, via Margaret E. Travis: • Cutwork is “a name given to those forms of embroidery where portions of the foundation material are cut away from the background of the design.” • Hardanger is “characterized by little rectangular groups of satin stitches, known as kloster blocks, arranged to outline the cut spaces and build up the major portion of the design.” • Drawn thread work “is a delicate lace-like nature, necessitating the removal of certain weft or warp threads of the material and adding decorative stitchery upon those which are left.” • Hedebo Embroidery is “a Danish form of cut and drawn work, in white on white linen, and flourished chiefly in the 18th and 19th centuries among the peasants who lived on the flat tract of land known as Heden (the heath), which lies between Copenhagen and the and the former capital Roskilde. • Needleweaving is “a decoration woven upon the warp or weft of the material after certain threads have been withdrawn. It is a
From Mary Thomas’s Embroidery Book, via Margaret E. Travis: • Cutwork is “a name given to those forms of embroidery where portions of the foundation material are cut away from the background of the design.” • Hardanger is “characterized by little rectangular groups of satin stitches, known as kloster blocks, arranged to outline the cut spaces and build up the major portion of the design.” • Drawn thread work “is a delicate lace-like nature, necessitating the removal of certain weft or warp threads of the material and adding decorative stitchery upon those which are left.” • Hedebo Embroidery is “a Danish form of cut and drawn work, in white on white linen, and flourished chiefly in the 18th and 19th centuries among the peasants who lived on the flat tract of land known as Heden (the heath), which lies between Copenhagen and the and the former capital Roskilde. • Needleweaving is “a decoration woven upon the warp or weft of the material after certain threads have been withdrawn.
