Tapestry is a heavy, handwoven cloth with designs made by separate weft threads that interweave only with the warp when required for the pattern. The binding is usually tabby and weft-faced, and the weft threads are usually of different colours. As most tapestries are woven on looms without a beater, the wefts do not have to lie strictly at right angles to the warp threads. Instead they may follow the contours of the design much more freely.
Linen is a term used to describe both the thread and any cloth made from flax. Flax is a bast fibre obtained from the stem of a plant of the Linaceae family (Linum, especially Linum usitatissimum). Examples of linen cloth have been found at various archaeological sites that date back to at least the fifth millennium BC (from the Middle Eastern sites of Nahal and Çatal Hüyük) and the use of linen may have started even earlier.
Picot is the term for a series of small loops (also known as bobs) along the edge of a fabric or piece of lace. Picot can be made as part of the main fabric or produced separately and then sewn onto the ground. The word picot derives from the French pic, meaning to peak, point or prick. Picot is sometimes regarded as a (simple) form of embroidered lace.
A slanting blanket stitch is a form of blanket stitch, but instead of the upright elements of the stitch being straight they slant slightly to one side.
The closed herringbone stitch is an embroidery technique that is worked from left to right along an imaginary double line. It is worked in exactly the same manner as the herringbone stitch, except that the crossed points of the stitches touch each other at the top and the bottom of the imaginary lines.
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The herringbone stitch is an embroidery technique that is worked from left to right along an imaginary double line. The thread is brought out at the bottom left hand corner and inserted a little to the right on the upper line and then brought out to the left. The needle returns to the lower line again and is brought out to the left. The stitch is then repeated.
The isolated back stitch is a form of back stitch, in which a significant gap is left between each stitch. 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 then emerges at some distance beyond the point where it first started.