How to Make Chinese Suzhou Embroidery - Shi Stitch

The word shi means adding another stitch above a previous stitch or stitches. As the word implies, the embroidery is done by combing more layer of lines, but the layer should not overlap. Therefore, when the first layer...

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How to Make Chinese Suzhou Embroidery - Long-and-short Stitch

Long-and-short stitch is very similar to the free overlap stitch. The difference is that the lines in the free overlap stitch lie flat. The stitch marks of the free overlap stitch are hidden between the lines, while those in the long-and-short stitch are visible...

long-and-short stitch

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How to Make Chinese Suzhou Embroidery - Free Overlap Stitch

Free overlap stitch involves the interlocking and overlapping of layer, and features different lengths of stitching lines and random arrangement of the stitches. The varied arrangement of the silk threads...

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How to Make Chinese Suzhou Embroidery - Flat Overlap Stitch

A small section of embroidery is evenly divided into several layers, each 1 or 2 cm. The first layer is embroidered with the plain stitch to make the edge (fig. a). The other layers are called “overlaps”. The lines of the overlaps...

flat overlap stitch

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