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The whipped chain stitch is a variation on the chain stitch, in which a row of chain stitches is worked and a second yarn is whipped around the stitches without entering the ground material. Also known as wrapped chain stitch.

See zig-zag chain stitch.

The zig-zag chain stitch is a variation on a chain stitch, except that each loop is made at an angle to the last one in order to create a zig-zag line.

The slanting detached chain stitch is a variation on a detached chain stitch, in which the individual stitches are worked at an angle to an imaginary line, rather than in a straight line.

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See underside couching.

See split stitch.

The Cope of St Louis d'Anjou is a medieval garment now in the Basilica of Saint Marie Magdalena in the town of Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France. The cope is closely linked to the history of the basilica, the construction of which started in the late thirteenth century, but it was never finished.

In some parts of southern Austria and neighbouring Italy (Tyrol), feathers are used as an embroidery thread to decorate a range of leather items. Male peacock feathers are stripped of the vane or feathery section, washed and dried. Then the hollow end (calamus, commonly known as the quill section) is cut into narrow strips. These strips are used to create initials, monographs, as well as small, intricate geometric patterns.

Evelyn Thomas (1951) is an English art historian who specialises in medieval English embroidery. Both of his parents were artists and his father taught Art at Eton College. Thomas studied art history at Edinburgh University (Scotland) and went on to an MA at the University of East Anglia.

"Opus Anglicanum - the Evelyn Thomas Database of Medieval English Embroidery" is the full title of a photographic index of English medieval embroidery, with an emphasis on opus anglicanum. The database is part of the Index of Christian Art (Princeton University), which was founded by Prof. Charles Rufus Morey (1877-1955) in 1917.