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Decorative postcards with a short text were popular in Europe from the early 1900's until the 1950's. Many of these were made in France. The cards include a wide variety of designs and messages worked in floss silk in various colours. Some ten million embroidered cards were produced. Woven silk postcards (especially by the Nayret Frères, St. Etienne, France) were also being made, but these were not as popular.

The Ladies Ecclesiastical Embroidery Society was founded in 1854 by Agnes Blencowe. The stated aim of the society was to “supply altar cloths of strictly ecclesiastical design either by reproducing ancient examples or by working under the supervision of a competent architect.” The Ladies Ecclesiastical Embroidery Society was also sometimes known as the Society for the Advancement of Ecclesiastical Embroidery. 

The National Folk Museum of Korea was opened in 1946 as the National Museum of Anthropology with the stated aim to investigate and study Korean folk life and to acquire and preserve artefacts relating to Korean cultural life. It changed its name to the National Folk Museum of Korea in 1975.

The Textile Research Centre (TRC) in Leiden keeps a traditional felt coat from southern Afghanistan (TRC 2010.0087). This type of garment is called a kusai and is illustrated in Mountstuart Elphinsone's Account of the Kindom of Caubul.., which was first published in 1815. This type of coat is still worn by Pashtun nomads (Kuchis) in the region.

See dalmatic.

Point croisé stitch is a version of a back stitch, in which two parallel lines of stitches are made on the front of the ground material by working an interlacing stitch in the form of a herringbone stitch on the reverse side of the cloth. 

Shell powder is finely ground oyster shell powder that is used for painting designs on a ground material. It is used in some forms of Japanese embroidery.

Nigiri-basami is the Japanese term for small, metal shears with very sharp blades used for cutting embroidery threads.

A takaburi needle is a four-sided pointed tool with a slender handle. It is used to align floss silk threads in some forms of Japanese embroidery.

Koma is a Japanese term for a square, wooden spool used to tension metal threads while making various forms of Japanese embroidery. The metal thread is wrapped around the middle of the spool. They are also sometimes used for floss silk threads that are wrapped around the middle of the spool.