Easter embroidery is one of the most important attributes of the celebration of Easter. Embroidered with their own hands towels and napkins with festive patterns decorate the house. Even the Easter basket, not decorated with embroidered Easter towel, is considered incomplete. A napkin with Easter patterns is customary to decorate a table.
For embroidery of the Easter pattern from ancient times used two colors: black and red, but now the needlewomen have moved away from the traditions and also began to add yellow, blue, gold. Embroidery can also be refreshed in green, it is important not to overdo it, you need to use it carefully and in very moderate quantities.
A special ornament is embroidered on the Easter towel, which carries a festive meaning - the joy of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Therefore, in most cases they use the symbols of the egg and the letters XB, meaning "Christ is risen."
Embroidery of Easter towels
Typically, the embroidery of the Easter towel is often done with a cross, although there are variations of the pattern and the smoothness, but still the cross-stitching is more traditional, besides it is much simpler and more versatile. To embroider a cross on an ordinary canvas is extremely inconvenient, so it is better to use a specially designed canvas, which is sold in all needlework shops. The canvas is a loose interlacing of rather thick natural threads, most often flax, very convenient for embroidery in that we can visually select a square, that is the place of interlacing of threads, and the pattern will turn out to be neat and all the crosses will be the same size. Threads are usually used by a moulin.
There are two main types of cross stitching - the Russian cross and the Bulgarian cross.
The Russian cross is carried out by leading the needle from left to right. Fixing the thread in the corner of the cage, we take it diagonally to the opposite corner, make the first puncture in the direction to the third corner of the cage. Further, without securing the thread, we immediately puncture the opposite corner diagonally. So finish the first stitch and start the next one. Entering the needle at the edge of the neighboring cell, we place it in the opposite diagonal of this square corner and continue to embroider the second square with a cross and so on. As a result, on the front side we get a line of crosses, and on the back, horizontal and vertical lines.
The Bulgarian cross is very different from the Russian. It is complicated by two additional intersecting lines crossing the Russian cross in its center. Embroidering the Bulgarian cross usually on the wrong side no longer pay attention and the pattern is evaluated only from the front side. While performing the Bulgarian cross, we first embroider the Russian on the diagonal lines, and then we complement it with transverse lines. As a result, we obtain a pattern similar to that shown in the figure. In each cell of the pattern, the Bulgarian cross is an asterisk. Of the many such asterisks, the most varied patterns of any complexity, configuration and color combinations are built.
Easter towel cross-stitched
We present you step-by-step instructions:
1. The first thing that needs to be done is to prepare the canvas. We cut the web of the required size.
2. Next, process the edges. If we put the finished work in the frame, it's enough just to tuck the edges and sew it with a simple looped seam, otherwise you can make a fringe by pulling the right amount of threads along the edges. We draw attention to the fact that too long fringe is appropriate only for large canvases, in our case the length of fringe should not be more than 2 centimeters.
3. When the canvas is ready, we draw a pattern of embroidery using colored pencils. Draw a diagram, just one dash, the main thing to note in which place of what color the cross must be performed.
4. Now proceed directly to the embroidery. Drawing is done by the Bulgarian cross, which will make our embroidery more embossed, and the background - Russian.
Here is our Easter towel ready. We found an application for him, making them a holiday table.