Categories & Techniques

1. Counted Thread
a. Cross Stitch
b. Assisi Work
c. Monochrome embroidery (i.e. Blackwork)
d. Pattern Darning
e. Hardanger
f. Counted Satin Stitch

2. Canvas Work
a. Tent Stitch
b. Basket Weave
c. Upright or Gobelin Stitch
d. Bargello
e. Petit Point

3. Whitework
a. Drawn Thread
b. Pulled Thread
c. Cutwork
d. Buratto Work
e. Reticella
f. Mountmellic

4. Metal Thread and Passementerie
a. Surface Couching
b. Or Nue
c. Bullion Work
d. Underside Couching
e. Opus Anglicum
f. Tassels
g. Slips & Guards

5. Surface Embroidery
a. Mastery of any four specialty stitches (i.e. Queen, Long-armed Cross, Rice, etc.)
b. Laid Work
c. Beadwork
d. Split Stitch/Long and Short Stitch
e. Raised Work (Stumpwork)

6. Stitched and Manipulated Fabric
a. Quilting
b. Trapunto
c. Smocking
d. Applique

7. Teaching
a. Class Plan
b. Kit for class as well as stitched final design if applicable
c. Actual teaching of a class with three evaluators present

8. Historical Research
a. Any paper documenting period needlework technique

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