Let's talk about what are the tapestry seams

Tapestry seams are characterized by the density of embroidery. In this technique we weave carpets and embroider pictures with needles. In appearance, the seam resembles a half-cross, but the difference can be seen both on the inside and on the style of execution, as the tapestry seam is not one stitch, but a whole series of them.

How to embroider a tapestry suture?

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

• When the threads are added, the moulin is fastened with a loop;
• Single thread on the wrong side left 3-5 centimeters long, holding a finger, bring it to your face and sew up the tail under the stitches;
• At the end of the embroidery, the thread is hidden under 5-6 stitches and cut it to the "root".

Standard tapestry seams:

• The oblique. This stitch is similar to the semicircle. It is embroidered on a canvas in the same "squares" as a regular cross. To do this, draw the needle from the lower left corner diagonally to the upper right, the next stitch also from the bottom left to the right upper. The new series is done similarly.
• 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 to two.

Original cross-stitch: tapestry seam "mosaic"

• Exciting. This stitch is embroidered as an elongated oblique seam, only the next row starts from the middle of the first row, as if grabbing 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 element of the seam you need 4 cells of the canvas: two in width and height. We begin to embroider from the lower left corner of the first cell of the canvas and enter diagonally into the upper right corner of the 1 st cell. Next, the needle is drawn 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 2 nd cell (upper half) and is inserted into the upper right corner of the second cell of the canvas. Externally, you should get an element of 3 stitches: a short oblique, elongated oblique, short oblique. The next row starts with a short half-cross as a continuation of the oblique stitch diagonally.

This seam is used when a smooth transition of tones is needed.

Unusual tapestry stitches

• Pillow. These tapestry seams are embroidered in square blocks (with a side of 4 squares), which, filling from different sides, you can get the original direction of the pattern. For one block it is necessary to make 7 slants of different lengths: a semicircle with a length of 1 cage (cl.), A long oblique size of 2 cells, a stitch of 3 cells, a central gobelin in 4 cells. And further downward: 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 intersected by tapestry stitches from large to smaller seam.
• Vertical. These stitches are made as usual oblique or elongated, only vertically, and not diagonally.
• Padded, three-dimensional. First on the face, you make a line along the length of the stitches, which is covered with tapestry oblique or oblique oblique. On the underside will be the same tapestry seam, and on the outside of the convex stitches.

Try to embroider tapestry seams on a simple pattern with different stitches and see how the same pattern will play in a new way.