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The queen stitch is a composite stitch that is generally worked on a canvas and forms a diamond shape. It is mentioned by the poet John Taylor (1578-1653). The technique is also known as the Renaissance stitch or rococo stitch.

The collection of Museum Rotterdam houses a sampler from the second half of the eighteenth century worked in queen stitch with coloured silk threads on a loosely woven linen fabric. It measures 32 x 31.5 cm.

The Hildesheim cope was made in Germany in the early fourteenth century. It has a canvas ground material made of linen, which is completely covered with needlework decoration. It measures 298  x 146 cm. The cope is particularly famous for the saints that are shown in gruesome detail with their particular method of martyrdom. The cope may derive from the St Simon and St Judas church, Goslar, Lower Saxony.

A gognots is the name for an apron worn by (Western) Armenian women. It used to be an indispensable part of their outfit, and was decorated with needlework or woven forms of ornamentation, and often worn together with a card-woven or metal band or a narrow, knitted belt, generally with an embroidered text (for instance "for good health").

See Point de Venice (Belgium).

See Point de Venice (Belgian).

'Embroidery' is the title of a short story by the American author, Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), in which three women are sitting on a verandah,working their embroidery. The tension is rising when the time is moving on towards five o'clock in the afternoon.

Organza is a very fine, plain fabric originally made of silk, but nowadays synthetic fibres are also used, such as nylon or polyester. Organza is being woven in China and India, but also in France and Italy. It is often used in bridal wear.

Kathleen Laurel Sage is a British designer and embroiderer who is particularly known for her metal thread work and the use of soldering irons, heat tools and organza to create her work, which includes a wide range of forms, including three-dimensional creations. She also wrote Embroidered Soldered and Heat Zapped Surfaces.

Kaffe Fassett was born as Frank Fassett in San Fransisco, in 1937. Since long living in the UK, he became a famous author, and artist best known for the very colourful designs that he used for various forms of the decorative arts, including embroidery, knitting and patchwork, but also ceramics and painting. For a long time, he worked together with the fashion designer Bill Gibb (d. 1988).