Simply Stitches: Maryborough Heritage City Embroiderers

This exhibition showcases a range of styles, stitches and techniques relating to hand embroidery. Some types of embroidery on display are: Crewel or Jacobean which is a free type of embroidery traditionally utilising wool. Today it is sewn in silk or cotton. Gold work embroidery which uses metal threads and dates back to 1000 years BC in China. It is most stunning under lights. Norwegian Hardanger embroidery encompasses counted thread and cut work and is very popular with the group. Sardinian Knotted embroidery from a remote part of Sardinia is also on display and comes under the heading of whitework. Cross Stich, the oldest form of embroidery. It is a counted embroidery sewn all over the world and was used in samplers and gifts in the past. Maryborough Heritage City Embroiderers was established in 1989 to foster an interest in hand embroidery. Advice and teaching have always been a core feature of the group.