Berlin wool work
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Berlin wool work is a style of embroidery similar to today's needlepoint that was particularly popular in Europe and America from 1804 to 1875. It is typically executed with wool yarn on canvas, worke
Woman's purse, Berlin wool work, Europe, cotton canvas with wool needlepoint, silk-braided cord, and silk chenille tassels, c. 1840, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.2007.211.280.
Boy's slippers, Berlin wool work, 1800–1850, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.2007.211.309a-b.
Odo bayeux tapestry detail
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Cross-stitch
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Cross-stitch is a form of sewing and a popular form of counted-thread embroidery in which X-shaped stitches in a tiled, raster-like pattern are used to form a picture. The stitcher counts the threads
Berlin wool work
…to draw the outlines on the canvas and then stitch following the colours on the pattern. Counted stitch patterns on charted paper, similar to modern cross-stitch patterns, made it easier to execute the designs, because amateur embroiderers were able to follow the patterns using just a simple tent stitch. They…
Cross-stitch sampler, Germany
Example of a modern counted cross-stitch - Wikimedia Commons logo stitched on 28 count Aida cloth
Cross-stitch sampler by Sarah Littleton, 1868
Detail of floral border pattern in cotton. Tea cloth (small tablecloth), Hungary, mid-twentieth century.