Muhammad objected to animal designs, perhaps embroidered, he saw on cushions when visiting his wife Aisha's house. The exterior of the Kaaba in Mecca was already before Islam "covered on the outside with multi-coloured textile hangings", very likely including embroidery as their modern Islamic equivalents often have. Both the Byzantine and Persian Sasanian empires used clothing embroidered with designs including rather large human figures as well as animals, with effects comparable to those of modern teeshirts. 18th–19th centuryĮarly Islam took over societies where the embroidery of clothes for both sexes and other textiles was very popular.
#CANVAS EMBROIDERY FREE#
Glue a hanger to the piece of mat board and glue the mat board to the back of the canvas with an archival/acid free glue.Fly mask embroidered with silver thread. I’m setting this on a ledge so I stopped here, but if you want to hang this on the wall cut a piece of mat board 1/4 inch smaller than the canvas. If you have fabric sticking out like I do at the lower right hand corner just tuck it under. I sewed from one end to half way, then from the other end to half way. Finesse the fabric so that the folded sides don’t show from the front. Start stitching these two sides together. Keep re-folding until you have worked out the corner the way you want it to look. Wrap that edge around to the back, neatly folding the fabric in. Crease the fabric to the edge following the line formed by the face of the canvas. Neatly folding the corners is important to this looking nice. (If you run out of thread part way across just tie off and start a new thread.) When you get to the end tie off your thread. You’re trying to make the sure fabric is neatly and evenly stretched over the front of the canvas. Keep stitching back and forth, making sure the canvas stays in place the way you want it to. Start sewing across the back, catching both sides evenly as shown. On the edges of the fabric mark where the face of the canvas ends – in my case, the 2×4 inch part of the piece. I added a basting line around the edge of what would be visible before I started.Ĭut the embroidered fabric to the size you determined before. All in all, my fabric had to be 4.25 by 6.25 to fit my 2×4 inch canvas. 75 inches per side to pull the work across the back.
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In addition to that, you’ll need at least another. 375+4+.375 – all visible from the front or sides. That means I had to make sure I had 2.75 by 4.75 of display area.
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#CANVAS EMBROIDERY PLUS#
The display area needs to be the face of the canvas plus the edges. You need to plan your work so that it will look good on the front and the edges. First, acquire what you plan to mount it on. You could also use a block of wood, especially for small pieces like this, or for very heavy embroidery.īefore you start your stitchwork you need to do some planning. You could choose to just use stretcher bars and mount your embroidery on that, but it is higher risk and the white canvas seemed to brighten up what I mounted on it. The tiny canvases I used are actually glued, that’s okay, too.
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– sawtooth hanger or other art hanging hook (optional)Ĭanvas is usually either side stapled or back stapled. – artist’s stretched canvas (I used something similar to Blick Studio Mini 3/8″ Profile Cotton Canvas) I have seen a lot of stitchwork mounted in frames or in embroidery hoops, but I live in an apartment that is lofty and a little industrial, so I wanted a simpler and more modern way to display my work.