crewelwork

The crewelwork on a bed in a guest room is a handmade copy of an 18th-century original.

The sofa is covered in a teal fabric, embroidered with Indian crewelwork.

Many different embroidery stitches are used in crewelwork to create a textured and colorful effect.

I can embroider beautiful needlepoint and crewelwork stitches, but that kind of thing doesn't earn any money.

Momma had taught me to do some needlepoint stitches, and also crewelwork on my first birthday in that locked room.

"They did the carpets in petit point and the silk bed hangings with crewelwork.

Best of all are his floral embroideries that look like crewelwork in jewel-like ruby and amethyst shades.

Businessmen are easing their tensions in cross-stitches and crewelwork, in knit-ones and purl-twos.

A crewelwork pocket from Pennsylvania is an American interpretation of an English interpretation of an Indian fabric.

Proenza Schouler showed hand-folded hems and a trove of brocades, crewelwork and passementerie.

Even for the uninitiated, it is dazzling, because each piece is worked in a variety of techniques, including embroidery, purling, chain stitch, knotting, couching and crewelwork.

The designer Leigh Chandler enlarged its crewelwork floral motif and backed the velvet with a Fortuny print; queen-size duvet cover, $350.

The drapery fabric, a burgundy-and-beige floral motif executed in crewelwork, was labeled An Original Screen Print; copyright Bloomcraft.

Designed with dramatically outscrolled ends and upholstered in crewelwork, these glamorous seats have a provenance that includes J. Paul Getty and the Earls of Shrewsbury.

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.

Other recurring themes include exotic Tree of Life patterns influenced by earlier crewelwork and chinoiserie with its fanciful imagery of an imaginary China, asymmetry in format and whimsical contrasts of scale.

A replica of the room's plaster ceiling, with company symbols, including a figure of St. Catherine, the company's patron, gives a spirited lift, as does the elegant hanging of crewelwork in the colorful stylized tree-of-life pattern.

A wooden Tudor bowl and a cider flagon cover the top of a pine haberdasher's chest; the framed crewelwork behind must have been 'horrendously bright' at one time, but has now faded to more acceptably gentle colours.

Chain stitch and its variations are fundamental to embroidery traditions of many cultures, including Kashmiri numdahs, Iranian Resht work, Central Asian suzani, Hungarian Kalotaszeg "written embroidery", Jacobean embroidery, and crewelwork.

Another designer, Bernhard Willhelm, who, like Mr. van Noten, lives in Belgium, also seemed to be using arcane styles, like smocking on muslin or crewelwork on linen dirndl skirts, to convey a private, more complex view of female charm.

The show includes a biblically inspired needlework picture (circa 1640), a rare pair of large blue and white crewelwork panels (circa 1710) used either as bed hangings or wall coverings, a woman's colorful bodice embroidered with ripe pomegranates, girls' samplers, sweetmeat purses and needlepoint.

Painted furniture, decorated with designs and motifs adapted from Dutch and French designs, English crewelwork patterns and German fractur (documents like birth or baptismal certificates illuminated with painted folk patterns), appeared in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Yet Indian fashion inexplicably continues to drift along lazily, as if the vital subcontinent that made a gift to the world of calico, madras, chintz, tie-dye, crewelwork and virtually the entire technique of hand block printing was somehow not motivated to propel itself out of the backwaters of design.

This led to a craze for chinoiserie, reflected on the development of imitation lacquer (Japanning), blue and white decoration on ceramics, flat-chased scenes of Chinese-style figures and landscapes on silver and new forms of silver as teapots, as well as colourful Indian-style crewelwork bed-hangings and curtains.