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The Boston fishing lady embroidery series is a popular name given to a series of embroidered pictures dating to the mid-eighteenth century, some of which feature women fishing. Such embroidered images were popular in the Boston (Mass.) region of the USA and were made by female members of prominent New England families attending various Boston boarding schools, as a ‘certificate’ of their embroidery skills.

Hitomezashi sashiko ('one-stitch sashiko') is a form of sashiko that is based on a pattern of straight lines. The stitches can be joined together or cross each other. 

See kogin zashi.

See St. Gallen embroidery.

Damask darning is a pattern darning techique that creates a very close appearance of a damask or brocade weave. WV

See pearling.

Illustrated is an example of an Indian turban band, now housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The band was made in either Faizabad or Lucknow (India) during the second half of the eighteenth century. The band is 64.5 x 10.5 cm in size (including the fringe). It is made of velvet on a canvas base. It is decorated with floss silk embroidery, silver and silver gilt wire and spangles.

A turban band was a highly decorative cloth and/or metal band that went around a Mughal-period turban in India. It was designed to embellish the turban rather than having a purely practical function. Such a band was often worn with other items of jewellery, such as a feathered aigrette and/or a turban brooch.

Wire canvas is a fine wire mesh used in the latter half of the nineteenthth century as a ground material for Berlin wool work.

Chapel of vestments is a medieval term for a set of liturgical garments used in the Catholic tradition.