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Marseille quilt is a form of cloth with machine printed patterns resembling hand-stitched quilting.

The so-called Maaseik embroideries are believed to include the oldest extant Western European embroidered pieces of fabric. They are incorporated into a medieval ecclesiastical vestment, namely a chasuble (casula). The chasuble and related textiles are housed in the Sint-Catharina (St. Catherine) Church, Maaseik, Belgium. The chasuble is now known as ‘The chasuble of Sts Harlindis and Relindis’.

See double running stitch.

See Royal School of Needlework.

Indigo (Indigofera species) is a tropical plant of the genus Indigofera, which is a commercially important source of the blue dye stuff, indigotine. The most important indigo plant form is Indigofera tinctoria (also known as Indigofera sumatrana).

Huckaback cloth is an absorbent cotton or linen material made from a self-patterning weave (patterns in the cloth are made by changing the weave in specific places; compare a damask weave) with a tabby ground and small, all-over motifs in offset rows.

See huckaback cloth.

See tambour embroidery or ari embroidery.

Hawaiian quilts represent an appliqué and quilting style that was developed by indigenous Hawaiians. It may reflect older kapa (bark cloth) traditions. Hawaiian quilts characteristically have a central design that is cut out of a piece of cloth that has been folded into halves, quarters or eighths. The thus created radiating design it is stitched onto the white top cloth of the quilt, with echo quilting around the cloth's edges.  

Edmund Harrison was the King’s Embroidererat the courts of James I (r: 1603-1625), Charles I (r: 1625-1649) and Charles II (r: 1660-1685) of England. Harrison grew up in London, but nothing is known of his apprenticeship as an embroiderer. His name is associated with William Broderick (d. 1620), King's Embroiderer to James I, and his son-in-law, John Shepley (Shipley; d. 1631), embroiderer to Charles I as Prince of Wales.