Cross Stitch

Cross-stitch is one of the oldest forms of embroidery and can be found all over the world. Many folk museums show examples of clothing decorated with cross-stitch, especially from continental Europe and Asia.

Cross-stitch is a popular form of counted-thread embroidery in which X-shaped stitches in a tiled, raster-like pattern are used to form a picture. Cross-stitch is usually executed on easily countable evenweave fabric called aida cloth. The stitcher counts the threads in each direction so that the stitches are of uniform size and appearance. This form of cross-stitch is also called counted cross-stitch in order to distinguish it from other forms of cross-stitch.

Traditionally, cross-stitch was used to embellish items like dishcloths, household linens, and doilies (only a small portion of which would actually be embroidered, such as a border).

Today cotton floss is the most common embroidery thread. It is a thread made of mercerized cotton, composed of six strands that are only loosely twisted together and easily separable. Other materials used are pearl cotton, Danish flower thread, silk and Rayon.

The advance of cross stitch is the 3D cross stitch (3 dimensional embroidery). As it names implies, once the product is finished, it will appear in 3 dimensional. 3D cross stitch and the traditional (flat) cross stitch have a big difference, the finished traditional cross stitch is flat, while the three-dimensional embroidery is three-dimensional. It is developed from the basis of traditional cross stitch kit, and become a real sense of three-dimensional DIY products.