The art of embroidery, also known as forty-piece embroidery, has long been popular among women. If you take a look at your grandparents' furniture, you will surely see examples of it. In the past, extra fabrics were sewn together to sew handles and other items, but today, this art has become more and more popular, so that we see more and more various models of this art every day.

What is patchwork?

In Iran, this art is known by various names, including inlay embroidery, land embroidery and sometimes it is referred to as piece embroidery. It can be said that the embroidered piece is a small decorative device that is used on another level.

Embroidery is very common with a variety of fabrics, but other materials can be used. For example, for ceramics it is a separate piece of pottery that is added to the first work for the purpose of decoration. Cotton or ketone fabrics as well as upholstered fabrics or thick curtains are suitable for this purpose. The best fabric for this is cotton.

Basic sewing principles

In fact, patchwork is a type of sewing that usually refers to sewing small and large and colorful pieces of different fabrics to each other.

These pieces are usually made of different types of fabrics: plain, floral, checkered, secret, and spotted, and the name forty pieces means the use of different pieces in large numbers on this handicraft, the pieces of fabric are generally in the form of: square, Small and large triangles and rhombuses are cut and connected to each other with stitches from the back, and then they are sewn together and fastened by small stitches.