Arts and crafts essays . Fig. 3.—Satin Stitch. Almost all of these stitches producedifferent sorts of surface or texture inthe embroidery done with them. Chainstitches, for instance, give a broken orgranular - looking surface (Fig. 2).This effect in surface is more strongly 393 Stitches and marked when knotted stitches are used. Mechanism. gatjn stitcnes give a flat surface (), and are generally used for em-broidery or details which are to be of an. Fig. 4.—Feather or Crewel Stitch—a mixture of longand short stitches. even tint of colour. Crewel or longand short stitches combined (Fig. 4)
Arts and crafts essays . Fig. 3.—Satin Stitch. Almost all of these stitches producedifferent sorts of surface or texture inthe embroidery done with them. Chainstitches, for instance, give a broken orgranular - looking surface (Fig. 2).This effect in surface is more strongly 393 Stitches and marked when knotted stitches are used. Mechanism. gatjn stitcnes give a flat surface (), and are generally used for em-broidery or details which are to be of an. Fig. 4.—Feather or Crewel Stitch—a mixture of longand short stitches. even tint of colour. Crewel or longand short stitches combined (Fig. 4)give a slightly less even texture thansatin stitches. Crewel stitch is speciallyadapted to the rendering of coloured394 surfaces of work in which different tints Stitches andare to modulate into one another. Mechanism. (e) The effects of stitches in relationto the materials into which they areworked can be considered under twobroadly-marked divisions. The one isin regard to embroidery which is toproduce an effect on one side only of amaterial; the other to embroidery whichshall produce similar effects equally onboth the back and front of the darning and a satin stitch may beworked so that the embroidery hasalmost the same effect on both sides ofthe material. Chain stitch and crewelstitch can only be used with regard toeffect on one side of a material. (/) But these suggestions for asimple classification of embroidery do notby any m
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