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The Creation Altar Piece is a South African stitched and beadwork embroidery, inspired by the altar piece 'The Lamb of God' (Het Lam Gods), painted by the Flemish artists, Hubert and Jan Van Eyck (Gent, Belgium, early fifteenth century). The Creation Altar Piece was made by the Hamburg Women’s Co-operative (Hamburg is a rural area of the Eastern Cape, South Africa) under the auspices of the Keiskamma Trust.

Canvas is a general term for a strong, firm, machine-made material, usually made of cotton, flax or occasionally silk. Canvas is produced in many grades and qualities, and may be softly finished or highly sized (starched).

Brodeuses is a 2004 French film directed by Éléonore Faucher. It is known as A Common Thread in Britain and Sequins in the United States. The film is about a young French girl who becomes an assistant in an embroidery atelier. The plot revolves around this girl, called Claire (played by Lola Naymark), who lives by herself as she does not get along with her parents.

The back stitch belongs to a class of individual stitches that are made backwards to the general direction of sewing. Back stitches are normally worked from right to left. The needle is brought out a short distance from the beginning of the line to be covered. It is then inserted again at the beginning of the line, thus taking a step backwards. The needle emerges beyond the point where it first started.

African-American quilts are a form of decorated soft furnishing made in the nineteenth century and later. The quilters often employ techniques such as appliqué and patchwork, with narrow bands of cloth sewn together in strips (string quilting), in strong, contrasting colours. 

Luneville embroidery is an umbrella term for various types of tambour embroidery, originating from the French town of Lunéville (Lorraine, France), where in the late eighteenth century a number of embroiderers had settled. Around 1810 they invented a form of tambour embroidery, using a very fine tulle cloth, which was decorated with chain stitch. Luneville embroidery may thus be classed as a form of embroidered net lace.

The Loara Standish sampler is the oldest known extant sampler in the USA, and was worked probably in the 1640's. The sampler is embroidered on fine linen (c. twenty threads per cm) using blue, green, pink and red silk thread. It is 60 x 18.5 cm in size. The stitches used include: Algerian eyelet stitch, back stitch, double running stitch, long-armed stitch and Montenegrin cross stitch.

Lier (Lierre) lace is a form of embroidered net lace produced in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the northern Belgian town of Lier. One story says that around 1825, a Mr. Timmermans married Miss De Keersmaeker, who ran a lace school in Lier. Together they developed a form of embroidered lace that used a tambour hook rather than a needle to decorate cotton bobbinet.

Lefkara lace, also known as Lefkaritika and Lefkaritika lace, is a form of pulled thread embroidery with satin stitch details. It is often classed as a form of embroidered lace. Lefkaritika lace originally comes from the village of Lefkara, Cyprus, and is locally called tayiadha (compare Italian punto tagliato).

A kebaya is a traditional Malayan woman's garment in the form of a long-sleeved, hip-length blouse. It is worn with a sarong. Kebayas are often decorated with some form of embroidery, such as cutwork, needlepoint lace or stitched embroidery (both hand and machine forms). The blouse is often fastened down the front with brooches, known as peniti or kerosang/kerongsang, instead of buttons.