Technique

Wool surface embroidery

پته‌دوزی

Wool surface embroidery is a working process used in pateh. Sequence and materials vary between workshops; this entry is an educational overview, not an authentication method.

Process, step by step

  1. Mark the cloth
  2. Build dense stitched outlines and fills
  3. Finish the reverse

Variations

Stitch vocabulary and colour schemes vary by community.

Conservation

Do not stretch or brush embroidered surfaces.

Used in these crafts

Pateh embroidery (Kerman)

A hand-embroidered wool textile from Kerman in which coloured silk or wool threads are worked in dense chain and satin stitching over a woollen ground, typically in a limited palette against a natural or dyed field.