Modern technique of carpet embroidery

Carpet weaving is one of the most ancient types of needlework, known in Europe and the countries of the East since the early Middle Ages. Once the carpets were used to protect themselves from the cold, they were hung with stone uncovered walls of locks, they were placed on cold stone floors. In the East and Central Asia, where carpet weaving reached the highest level of craftsmanship, soft fluffy carpets were used for sitting, sleeping, reclining during meals, in short, they were an integral part of the oriental decoration. It was in the countries of the Middle East and Central Asia that knotted pile weaving was used to make carpets, with the help of which thick, fluffy and soft cloths were created.

In European countries, tapestry weaving became more widespread. Thin woven tapestries, depicting genre scenes and elaborate ornamental compositions, adorned the walls of castles and palaces of noble nobles. Graceful tapestries were not only woven on special machines, but also embroidered with various seams, creating real embroidered pictures of extraordinary beauty. The craftsmen used various types of stitches to embroider carpets. The most popular, and now widely used for embroidery, are cross and semi-cross, oblique and straight gobelin seam, Bulgarian cross, tambour seam and some others. Embroidery of carpets with these popular seams is performed on a large canvas or thick cotton fabric with a large straight interlocking of the share and cross threads that form a pronounced grid. The technique of embroidering carpets with the above seams and the seams themselves are called countable when it is necessary to calculate the number of colored stitches applied to the canvas, in accordance with the number of cells on the color scheme of the carpet pattern.

Modern technique of carpet embroidery

Modern masters use widely counting techniques for embroidering carpets and tapestries. With time changing motifs and ornaments for embroidery, each new century introduces its subjects and patterns to create carpets, but the technique of counting embroidery remains unchanged, and this is its unconditional value.

However, the art of creating carpets and panels is developing, embroideresses are inventing new techniques of embroidery and creating modern original decorative items for decorating the interior. One of these techniques, not very old and very modern, is the technique of embroidering carpets with the help of a crochet hook. For work, the largest canvas is needed, it is better, if it is a strumin, the remains of multi-colored knitting twisted threads and a hook corresponding to their thickness.

First, choose a picture or an ornament for a future rug. It can be any scheme for cross-stitching, only, for starters, not very complex and multicolored. In accordance with the color palette of the pattern, we select the thread for embroidery. Then cut them into equal lengths of the same length and lay the prepared bundles of thread in a suitable container so that they are at hand. Half the length of the length of the thread is equal to the height of the carpet, the longer the thread, the higher will be the pile of the carpet. The average length of the thread is 5-7 cm.

We take the hook, insert it into the opening of the canvas, we hook the folded half of the thread through the loop, pull this loop through the hole, then hook into the adjacent canvas opening, without removing it from the loop, we hook the thread and stretch its end through the loop, we have a tied knot with a brush at the end. Such nodules-brushes fill the entire surface of the canvas in accordance with the color pattern. The result is a beautiful long-rug mat, which will be a wonderful decoration in the room. To fix the nodules from the wrong side, we recommend to coat the finished mat with water-diluted PVA glue.

Another simple technique of embroidering carpets is a tambour seam. The tambour seam is made as follows. From the wrong side to the front we pierce the fabric and remove the needle and thread. We make a loop from the thread, at the place where the needle exits, we pierce the fabric again and draw the needle a short distance from the first puncture site again to the face so that it passes into the formed loop and tighten the thread. From the loops formed densely one of the other, and you get a chain stitch, which gradually smooth or broken lines (depending on the chosen pattern) sew the entire colored background of the carpet. For embroidery use a thick twisted thread, then the texture of the carpet is more relief. Embroidering carpets gives an opportunity for manifestation of boundless creative imagination, and it is not at all necessary to use old laborious methods for this.