embroidery machine

Untitled DocumentEmbroidery is the art or handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with
needle and thread or yarn. Embroidery may also incorporate other materials such
as metal strips, pearls, beads, quills, and sequins. A characteristic of
embroidery is that the basic techniques or stitches of the earliest work—chain
stitch, buttonhole or blanket stitch, running stitch, satin stitch, cross
stitch—remain the fundamental techniques of hand embroidery today. Machine
embroidery, embroidery machine, arising in the early stages of the Industrial
Revolution, mimics hand embroidery, especially in the use of chain stitches, but
the "satin stitch" and hemming stitches of machine work rely on the use of
multiple threads and resemble hand work in their appearance, not their
construction.