The carving in the art of embroidery

The embroidery technique was born around the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the embroidery carving also known by the term "Guipure" is the master in this art. This embroidery is executed tone-on-tone to the maximum the ivory color is allowed and, the carving technique was often used to decorate the household linen and some garments.

It was born mainly to imitate lace and lace made with the tombolo and it was precisely this sewing to be accessible even to the middle and lower middle class women. At that time the cost of this decoration was much lower than the Venetian lace spread throughout Europe in the nineteenth century.

First you will need to have the following materials available: 

• a needle, 
• some thread, 
• some cotton fabric or possibly linen but which is compact, 
• some scissors, 
• a loom (optional).

Procedure: 

Begin by returning the design on the fabric that you will then begin to delineate with the filza point, the point to be executed must be delineate if you want a uniform result. Subsequently cover the threads with the festoon stitch. Finally, finish the embroidery by carefully trimming the fabric especially along the rib of the last stitch. Here is finished the carving in the art of embroidery. If necessary, you can place the fabric on a frame.