Process, step by step
- Mark the cloth
- Build dense stitched outlines and fills
- 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.