A tapestry needle is like a large crewel needle, only it is much stronger and the eye is very large.
A crewel needle, which is a needle with a long eye, will be required for silk or worsted.
A crewel needle is threaded with a single strand of silk, the same shade or lighter or darker if you desire.
Weave back and forth over three of the groups with a blunt pointed crewel needle for one quarter of the distance from the hem.
The most unfortunate thing about a crewel needle is that the eye has the bad habit of breaking.
A piece of coloured worsted and a large-eyed crewelneedle No.
The crewelneedle which I mentioned in the ninth chapter is the most important implement.
Most of the crewel work sold in the stores today is made with the bonnaz embroidery machine, which closely simulates the decorative effect of needlework.
Crewel work is customarily worked with colored worsted yarns on a plain linen ground, sometimes completely covered, but usually left open to form a background for the pattern.
The Royal School of Needlework has often been commissioned to restore and transfer the crewel trees on to a new backing.
Most old English houses contain some hangings of thickly woven cotton, probably Indian, worked in crewel or worsted, of the time of James I.
The thread of crewel or silk should always be able to pass loosely into the eye, so as not to require any pulling to carry it through the material.
It is not of much use, except when worked with double crewelor with tapestry wool; and should then have the appearance of a twisted rope.
The stems are frequently worked in with stem stitching or couching, and the leaves enriched by large veinings of crewel or silk work, or in conventional designs, with some of the many varieties of herringboning.
Ordinary crewelwork on linen may be washed at home, by plunging it into a lather made by water in which bran has been boiled, or even with simple soap-suds, so long as no soda or washing-powder is used.
Crewel should not be manufactured with a twist, as it makes the embroidery appear hard and rigid; and the shades of colour do not blend into each other so harmoniously as when they are untwisted.
The best "embroidery needles" for ordinary crewel handwork are Nos.
Directions for cleaningcrewel work are given later; but it should not be sent to an ordinary laundress, who will most certainly ruin the colours.
We have now named the principal stitches used in hand embroidery, whether to be executed in crewel or silk.
These edging stitches resemble satin stitch in so far that the same amount ofcrewel or silk appears on the under, as on the upper side of the work: they must slope towards the narrow part of the petal.
For crewel work on cloth or serge, it is sometimes necessary to rub a little shoemaker's paste on to the back of the embroidery, while it is tightly stretched.
Thar I beheld Salmoneus alsswa, In crewel torment sufferand mekil wa, For that he gan to contyrfet him cast Gret Jovis fyre and hevynly thundris blast.
The stitches just described were largely used in crewel work.
In a room draped in chintz so slippery as to forbid all emotion, Irene was sitting on a piano stool covered with crewel work, playing 'Hansel and Gretel' out of an old score.
This over-and-over stitch was apparent in all crewel embroidery devoted to personal wear, but was never found in articles used for house or decorative purposes.
It is probable that in one form or another possessions of crewel embroidery were transported with them.
It was certainly a proper distinction, as the flat of crewel was not capable of shadow and was more inherently a part of the textile, as much so, indeed, as a stamped or woven decoration would have been.
This was the stitch used by the Pilgrim mothers in their crewel embroidery, as we use it to-day in most of our decorative presentations.
These were wrought with borders of crewelwork, and finished with elaborate thread and crewel fringes.
It was the romantic period of embroidery that makes a very telling contrast to the earlier crewel and later muslin embroidery of the New England states.
Then the crewel work slipped off her lap, and Lady Kynaston slept.
The old lady had taken out her fancy-work, a piece of crewel work such as is the fashion of the day.
For 'arf the rarnd it stood the crewel strane and then it didn't break.
We moved slowly forward, leaving be'ind us a line of crewel deep kassims, which nuthink wouldn't fill up.
Their crewel thretts brought tears even to my proud eyes, and I almost beleeve as 'ow I grovvellel before them.
E 'it the onoffending turf a crewel blow, and there was a narsty crack.
The vogue for lace work in the reign of William and Mary influenced the stitches in the crewel embroidery, and in Queen Anne's day the variety of stitches was reminiscent of the earlier period, some of the fillings being beautiful.
VIII Solid Crewel Work 18th Century including the Terra Firma and different birds and beasts.
The Stump Embroidery, in vogue at the same time as the crewel hangings specially treated in this volume, was full of symbolism, and naturally the same inspiration directed the worker in crewels.
Tudor crewel work, was chiefly done in broad outline of a more or less fanciful nature as regards the stitching, witness the sections of that Tudor piece which is shewn in our first illustration.
The dissection of detail in early English crewel embroidery is a very fascinating occupation and well repays the expenditure of time.
The medlar-like fruit is worked in Crewel stitch in bands of brown, stem lighter in shade.
Crewel work of the type of Jacobean, was the outcome of that earlier wool embroidery that even in the zenith of fame of the Ecclesiastical broderers still quietly went on its way.
A piece of silk lay upon her knee and many shades of crewel were spread out before her.
Harper's Queen Crewel Needles are the best, and I advise all needleworkers to insist upon having them.
Leonard and Major Bree lounged by the fireplace, Jessie Bridgeman sitting near them, absorbed in her crewel work.
Old examples of work done entirely in crewel-stitch, as distinguished from what is called crewel work, are seldom if ever to be met with.
The term split-stitch describes no new stitch, but a particular treatment to which a crewel or a satin stitch is submitted.
The muddled effect of much crewel work is due to the confusion of this stitch with crewel-stitch proper.
The crewel to be preferred is that not too tightly twisted.
The stalks are not padded with cotton wool, but first worked with crewel wool, which, being soft and elastic, forms an excellent ground for working over in floss silk.
In solid crewel the stitches should quite cover the ground without pressing too closely one against the other.
What you get is, in effect, a combination of crewel and outline stitches, as at J, which in the other case only occurs in the centre of the shape where the files of stitches meet.
The outline of the heart is corded; the centre of it is raised by stitching, first with crewel wool and then with gold-coloured floss across that (it is difficult to prevent white stuffing from showing through gold).
Stem stitch, also Crewel stitch, is that used for stems and for ordinary filling-in of flowers and arabesques.
This work is sometimes done with crewel wool, and in rather a different way, see Fig.
Use a darning or crewel needle, and a very long thread, or you will have to be continually taking fresh.
Or a fly made with a peacock's feather is excellent in a bright day: you must be sure you want not in your magazine-bag the peacock's feather; and grounds of such wool and crewel as will make the grasshopper.
She is, as usual, bending industriously over her crewel work; the parrot's tail is now in a high state of perfection, not a color in the rainbow being missing from it.
Just for practice, take a small square of canvas, and thread a crewel needle with the embroidery thread.
I shall make mamma a beautiful crewel cushion, with all the battles in history on it.
And Val has finished her crewel cushion, thanks to the aunts,' said Gillian.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crewel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
