TLE 8 Handicraft

It is the ornamentation of textiles and other materials with needlework for personal use and decoration, not only for home but for offices as well.

• Basket weaving

• Handicraft

• Embroidery

• Color scheme

Used to measure short distance

• Tape measure

• Crewell

• Embroidery Hoop

• Gauge

Used to keep the fabric stretched while embroidery stitches are applied on the design.

• Embroidery Hoop/Stilleto

• Thimble

• Pin cushion

• Scissors

Used for easier threading, especially by sewers with poor eyesight.

• Needle

• Needle threader

• Chenille

• Emery bag

Fine powder used in transferring design by pricking method.

• Tracing paper

• Tracing wheel

• Pounce

• Tapestry needle

A single detached stitch that is used for filling in a design area.

• Chain stitch

• Lazy Daisy stitch

• Back stitch

• Bullion stitch

This stitch requires us to divide the pattern into two and each side is filled alternatively, giving a plaited effect in the centre.

• Fish Bone stitch

• Feather stitch

• Loop stitch

• Cross stitch

A popular stitch among embroiderers since it can be used to create the eyes on an embroidered face or center of the flower.

• Herringbone

• French Knot

• Satin stitch

• Split

A solid filling stitch that is used to cover a design area with long, straight stitches worked very closed together.

• Chain stitch

• Stem stitch

• Satin stitch

• Split

Uses simple strait stitches in a single direction to fill in patterns.

• Back stitch

• Running stitch

• Stem stitch

• Seed (Rice Grain) stitch