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Let's talk about what tapestry stitches are
Let's talk about what tapestry stitches are
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Tapestry stitches are characterized by the density of embroidery. In this technique, carpets are woven and pictures are embroidered with needles. In appearance, the seam resembles a half-cross, but the difference can be seen both in the wrong side and in the style of execution, since the tapestry seam is not one stitch, but a whole series of them.

How to embroider with tapestry stitch?

tapestry stitches
tapestry stitches

This type of embroidery starts from right to left, creating oblique columns on the wrong side. If you embroider crosses with a tapestry stitch, then the picture becomes voluminous and dense. The beginning and end of embroidery is the same:

  • when adding the threads, it is fixed with a floss loop;
  • leave a single thread on the wrong side 3-5 centimeters long, holding it with your finger, bring it to the face and “sew” the tail under the stitches;
  • at the end of embroidery, hide the thread under 5-6 stitches and cut it under the "root".

Standard Tapestry Stitches:

  • Slanting. This stitch is similar to a half-cross. It is embroidered on canvas in the same "squares" as a regular cross. To do this, bring the needle out diagonally from the lower left corner to the upper right, the next stitch is also made from the lower left to the upper right. A new row is done in the same way.
  • Long oblique. This stitch is embroidered according to the scheme described above, only on two "squares" of the canvas, that is, the width of the seam is equal to one cell of the canvas, and the height is two.

Original cross stitch: mosaic tapestry stitch

  • Exciting. This stitch is embroidered as an elongated oblique stitch, only the next row starts from the middle of the first row, as if capturing half of the stitch. That is, the height of the tapestry seam is equal to two cells of the canvas, then the second row will start from the second cell of the first row.
  • Mosaic. For this seam element, you will need 4 canvas cells: two in width and two in height. We begin to embroider from the lower left corner of the 1st cell of the canvas and insert it diagonally into the upper right corner of the 1st cell. Next, the needle is removed from the lower left corner of the 2nd cell to the upper right corner of the 1st cell of the canvas. The last element of this stitch starts from the lower left corner of the 2nd cell (upper half) and is inserted into the upper right corner of the 2nd cell of the canvas. Outwardly, an element of 3 stitches should turn out: short oblique, elongated oblique, short oblique. The next row begins with a short half-cross as a diagonal continuation of the bias stitch.
  • how to embroider with tapestry stitch
    how to embroider with tapestry stitch

This stitch is used when a smooth transition is needed.

Fancy tapestry stitches

  • Pillow. These tapestry stitches are embroidered in square blocks (with a side of 4 cells), which, by filling in from different sides, you can get the original direction of the pattern. For oneblock, you need to make 7 obliques of different lengths: a half-cross with a length of 1 cell (cl.), a long oblique size of 2 cells, a stitch in 3 cells, a central tapestry in 4 cells. and further in descending order: 3 stitches in 3, 2, 1 cells.
  • Crossed cushion. It is done in the same way as the previous one, only from the middle the square is crossed with tapestry stitches from the largest to the smallest seam.
  • Vertical. These stitches are made like regular oblique or elongated stitches, only vertically, not diagonally.
  • cross stitch tapestry stitch
    cross stitch tapestry stitch
  • Padded, voluminous. First, on the face, lay a line along the length of the stitches, which you close with tapestry oblique or elongated oblique. From the inside there will be the same tapestry seam, and from the outside there will be convex stitches.

Try sewing tapestry stitches on a simple pattern with different stitches and see how the same pattern plays out in a new way.

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