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Needlework is another term for the handicraft of decorative sewing and textile arts. Anything that uses a needle for construction can be called needlework. The definition is often expanded to include craft using a long and thin tool, such as crochet hook and tatting shuttles.

• A handicraft, sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal handicraft or handmade, is any of a wide variety of types of work where useful and decorative objects are made completely by hand or by using only simple tools. It is a traditional main sector of craft, and applies to a wide range of creative and design activities that are related to making things with one's hands and skill, including work with textiles

Needlework includes (among others):

• Quilting

  • Patchwork

• Applique

• Embroidery

  • Blackwork

  • Canvas work, including Berlin wool work

  • Counted-thread embroidery

  • Cross-stitch

  • Darning

  • Drawn thread work

  • Machine embroidery

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• Crochet, including Filet crochet

• Knitting

• Tatting

• Lucet

• fabric Making

  • Marbling on fabric

  • Felt making

  • Silk painting

• Smocking

• Braiding and Tassel making

Royal School of Needlework: The International Centre of Excellence for the Art of Hand Embroidery since 1872. Based at the magnificent Hampton Court Palace we offer a thriving education programme for every level. We teach at venues across the UK in Bristol, Birmingham, Rugby, Durham and Glasgow as well as internationally in Dublin, America and Japan. Our renowned Embroidery Studio expertly restores and conserves valuable and historical embroidered pieces and creates stunning bespoke embroidery for fashion, art and royalty.

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