Vietnamese embroidery

Vietnamese hand embroidery is a traditional craft dating back 700 years.^{[citation needed]} Usually, tiny threads are used to create brightly coloured pictures on cloth. It is a popular extracurricular activity for young girls in high school. Traditionally, girls are expected to know how to decorate pillowcases, curtains and tablecloths with hand embroidery.^[1]

See also

• Culture of Vietnam

References

• The History of Traditional Hand Embroidery Art

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Embroidery

Styles

• Assisi
• Bargello
• Berlin work
• Blackwork
• Broderie anglaise
• Broderie perse
• Candlewicking
• Counted-thread
• Crewel
• Cross-stitch
• Cutwork
• Darning
• Drawn thread work
• Goldwork
• Hardanger
• Hedebo
• Machine
• Needlepoint
• Quillwork
• Smocking
• Stumpwork
• Surface
• Suzani
• Whitework

Stitches

• Backstitch
• Blanket
• Box
• Buttonhole
• Chain stitch
• Couching and laid work
• Cross stitches
• Embroidery stitch
• Featherstitch
• Holbein
• Parisian
• Running
• Satin stitch
• Sashiko
• Shisha
• Straight stitch
• Tent stitch

Tools and materials

• Aida cloth
• Embroidery hoop
• Embroidery thread
• Evenweave
• Perforated paper
• Plainweave
• Plastic canvas
• Sampler
• Slip
• Yarn

Regional

and historical

• Art needlework
• Balochi
• Brazilian
• Bunka shishu
• Burmese
• Chikan
• Chinese
  • Cantonese
  • Sichuan
  • Suzhou
  • Xiang
• English
• Indian
• Islamic
• Jacobean
• Sashiko
  • Kogin-zashi
• Bunka shishu
• Kaitag
• Kantha
• Kasuti
• Korean
• Macedonian
• Mountmellick
• Nakshi kantha
• Persian
  • Rasht
  • Sermeh
  • Sistan
  • Zardozi
• Opus Anglicanum
• Rushnyk
• Sewed muslin
• Ukrainian
• Vietnamese
• Vyshyvanka

Embroideries

• Butler-Bowden Cope
• Bayeux Tapestry
• Bradford carpet
• Great Tapestry of Scotland
  • Great Tapestry of Scotland: People's Panel
• Hastings Embroidery
• Hestia tapestry
• Magna Carta (An Embroidery)
• Margaret Layton's jacket
• New World Tapestry
• Overlord Embroidery
• Oxburgh Hangings
• Prestonpans Tapestry
• Quaker Tapestry
• Scottish Diaspora Tapestry
• Fragments of a Cope with the Seven Sacraments

Designers

and embroiderers

• Emilie Bach
• Leon Conrad
• Shahin Ebrahimzadeh-Pezeshki
• Kaffe Fassett
• Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty
• Constance Howard
• Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum
• François Lesage
• Ann Macbeth
• May Morris
• Jessie Newbery
• Mahtab Norouzi
• Tetiana Protcheva
• Charles Germain de Saint Aubin
• Mary Elizabeth Turner
• Dimitri Vlachos - Castano
• Kathleen Whyte
• Erica Wilson
• Lily Yeats

Organizations

and museums

• Embroiderers' Guild (UK)
• Embroiderers' Guild of America
• Embroidery Software Protection Coalition
• Needlework Development Scheme
• Royal School of Needlework
• Wemyss School of Needlework
• Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum
• Han Sang Soo Embroidery Museum

Related

• Appliqué
• Crochet
• Knitting
• Lace
• Needlework
• Quilting

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