We invite you to get acquainted with amazing embroidery technique - microwave, or Petit Point. This is the most miniature embroidery technique, from French Petit Point you can translate as a "trifle, little point, something tiny."
Manual embroidery, and especially the microwave, has always been an employment of famous estates. Petit Point technique embroidered Kings and Queen, among them the most famous Ekaterina Medici, Maria Stewart, Maria-Antoinette.
The creation of decorations with a miniature embroidery requires the needlewomen of significant diligence and ability to handle needle and materials. For embroidery in these works, antique schemes are used, which are carefully stored and restored. Each stitch here is less than a millimeter size. In such embroidery, the seams of the cross and Petit Point apply. To display color transitions, silk threads are required sufficiently contrasting shades, otherwise the color transition can be invisible to the eye. Silk canvas used as the basis, but because it is quite expensive, our embroiders have adapted to embroidery a curtainee. Of course, embroidery occurs under the magnifying glass, or even under a microscope. Especially diligent and ambitious needlewomen should care.
And we offer us vision not to protect and admire these amazing works.
But the miniature embroidery for puppet houses: mats, pillows and paintings.
