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What's latch hook?
bestex 发表于 2009-03-06 16:47:27
Latch hook projects are generally sold in kits. A latch hook kit contains a heavy-duty plastic canvas grid with a pattern printed on it, pre-cut pieces of yarn in specified colors, and the hook used to attach the yarn. The latch hook itself is similar to a crochet needle, but has a hinged pin that closes the hook around the yarn. Each piece of yarn is hooked over the end of the latch hook needle, which is inserted into a square, the yarn is then hooked onto the needle and pulled back through the square until it is firmly tied on.
Most projects involve multiple colors of yarn that form a picture as the pattern is completed. Depending on the size of the canvas and the time spent hooking, a latch hook project can take days, weeks, or even months to complete. Smaller projects with simple designs are best for beginners tackling their first latch hook project. Larger projects, especially those being made for use as an actual floor covering, require a little more experience and a better grade yarn than that sold in most kits. However, there are kits available for making floor coverings.
Though latch hook requires a little practice, it is a simple enough process for even young kids to learn. Latch hook is one of the simplest yarn crafts and requires no previous experience with knitting or other yarn craft. Experienced and ambitious crafters can create their own design on blank canvas to make a unique, one-of-a-kind piece for hanging. Whether you choose to create a latch hook kit project or your own design, it can be an easy way to unwind and express creativity.
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The history of cross stitch
bestex 发表于 2009-01-19 16:08:20
Cross stitch is one of the oldest forms of embroidery and can be found all over the world.[1] Many folk museums show examples of clothing decorated with cross-stitch, especially from continental Europe and Asia.
Two-dimensional (unshaded) cross-stitch in floral and geometric patterns, usually worked in black and red cotton floss on linen, is characteristic of folk embroidery in Eastern and Central Europe.[2]
In the United States, the earliest known cross-stitch sampler is currently housed at Pilgrim Hall in Plymouth, Massachusetts.[3] The sampler was created by Loara Standish, the daughter of Captain Myles Standish, circa 1653.
Multicoloured, shaded, painting-like patterns as we know them today are a recent development, deriving from similar shaded patterns of Berlin wool work of the mid-nineteenth century.
Traditionally, cross-stitch was used to embellish items like dishcloths, household linens, and doilies (only a small portion of which would actually be embroidered, such as a border). Although there are many cross-stitchers who still employ it in this fashion, especially in Europe, it is now increasingly popular to simply embroider plain pieces of canvas and hang them on the wall for decoration.
There are many cross-stitching "guilds" across the United States and Europe which offer classes, collaborate on large projects, stitch for charity, and provide other ways for local cross-stitchers to get to know one another.
Today cotton floss is the most common embroidery thread. It is a thread made of mercerized cotton, composed of six strands that are only loosely twisted together and easily separable. Other materials used are pearl cotton, Danish flower thread, silk and Rayon. Sometimes different wool threads, metallic threads or other specialty threads are used, sometimes for the whole work, sometimes for accents and embellishments.
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