Embroidery & Ornamental Weaving
Methods of ornamental weaving may be broadly classed under three sections :
1-Figured loom-weaving
was brought to so high a perfection by Jacquard's invention of his apparatus at the begining of this century;
2-Tapestry-weaving
in high and low warp frames, in the manners to be seen respectively at the Gobelins and Beauvais factories.
3-Embroidery.
The third method of ornamenting a textile is ornamental needle work, or embroidery. Embroidery sometimes allies itself with the two first named processes in accentuating, by means either of stitches wrought over, or by skilfully outlining certain portions of the pattern in a printed or woven textile to which it is desired to give prominence. But embroidery is more frequently used by itself for decoration and since the practice of this handicraft is freer and more independent than that of printing or weaving, it is capable of more easily producing really artistic effects. (From "Embroidery and Lace " by Ernest Lefebure)
