Special Program for

Technical Vocational
Education 9
HANDICRAFT
Technical Vocational Education – Grade 9
Quarter 1 – Module 1: History of Needle Craft
First Edition, 2020

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 Quarter 1
Self Learning Module 1
HISTORY OF NEEDLE CRAFT
Introductory Message

For the facilitator:

Welcome to the Handicraft (Needle Craft) Self-learning Module on History of Needle

craft!

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed and

reviewed by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its
Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A.
Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through Mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in
developing this instructional resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and

independent learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims
to help learners acquire the needed 21st century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely:
Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while
taking into consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies
that will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them
to manage their own learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist
the learners as they do the tasks included in the module.
For the learner:

Welcome to the Handicraft (Needle Craft) Module on the History of Needle craft!

The hand is one of the most symbolized part of the human body. It is often used to
depict skill, action and purpose. Through our hands we may learn, create and
accomplish. Hence, the hand in this learning resource signifies that you as a
learner is capable and empowered to successfully achieve the relevant
competencies and skills at your own pace and time. Your academic success lies in
your own hands!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful opportunities
for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You will be
enabled to process the contents of the learning material while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectation - These are what you will be able to know after

completing the lessons in the module

Pre-test - This will measure your prior knowledge and the

concepts to be mastered throughout the lesson.

Recap - This section will measure what learnings and skills

that you understand from the previous lesson.

Lesson- This section will discuss the topic for this module.

Activities - This is a set of activities you will perform.

Wrap Up- This section summarizes the concepts and

applications of the lessons.
Valuing-this part will check the integration of values in the
learning competency.

Post-test - This will measure how much you have learned from
the entire module.
 EXPECTATION

OBJECTIVES:
At the end of this lesson, you are expected to:
 Define needle craft.
 Discuss the history of needle craft.
 Identify the two gentlemen that give contribution to the needle craft.

PRE–TEST

Direction. Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if it is wrong.

Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.
1. Embroidery has historically been done mainly by women.

2. A style of stitching known as 'Raised-stitch' is first described in Cambodia.

3. Needlecraft encompasses a collection of pastimes that are in many ways
integral to the development of civilization.
4. What we today call tapestry originated around the year 1800, when it
became popular among women in lower-class environments to embroider
small images.
5. Embroidery in various forms has existed as long as man has been able
to produce fabric.

RECAP

Let’s have an introductory about Handicraft (Needle craft} course, since you
choose this course you should research about the background about
handicraft needle craft. Here some question that we need to answer:
1. What do come first in your mine when you hear the word handicraft needle
craft?
2. What do you think you can boost on yourself when you finish this course?
 LESSON

HISTORY OF NEEDLECRAFT

EMBROIDERY - FROM THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY TO HENRY FONDA

Embroidery in various forms has existed as long as man has been able
to produce fabric. Today embroidery is practised all over the world, but it is
believed that it has its origin in China and the Near East. The
word embroidery comes from the French word broderie meaning
embellishment.

The earliest finds of embroidery in Sweden are from the period around
the 9th and 10th centuries, which coincides with the period that we call the
Viking Age. It is however two centuries later, around year 1000, that the
development of embroidery in Europe really takes off. In this period the
Christian church really started to grow and royalty gained power in many
countries. To demonstrate their power and wealth, richly decorated garments
and ornaments in the form of wall hangings and tablecloths were
commissioned.

The Bayeux tapestry depicting the Norman conquest of England in

1066 is one of the world's most famous works of embroidery and is a product
of this period. The tapestry measure 70 m x 50 cm, is embroidered with stem
stitch and double couching on unbleached linen and is thought to have been
embroidered in 1076. What we today call tapestry originated around the year
1800, when it became popular among women in upper-class environments to
embroider small images. These were often oriental motifs featuring plants and
flowers and were inspired by the goods brought back to the West by the East
India Company. Around the year 1900 embroidery had spread from being the
preserve of the upper-class and became a pastime of the people. Mail order
catalogues and pattern papers led to patterns and techniques being widely
spread, and embroidery were no longer done on expensive silk but on coarser
and cheaper materials. Most hangings now also featured a short text in the
form of proverbs, sayings or scriptures in combination with a pattern that
formed the frame.

Embroidery has historically been done mainly by women, however, this

has not prevented some famous men from finding rest and relaxation in
embroidering, or "painting with thread" as some call it. Actor Henry Fonda
revealed in an interview that his favorite hobby was embroidering. Between
shots when filming, he sat and embroidered satin stitch in order to relax and
pass the time. Another gentleman embroiderer was Gustaf V, king of Sweden
between 1907-1950. He relaxed by embroidering flame stitch. It was a very
unusual employment among men of their generation, but this did not stop
Cowboy Henry's nor King Gustaf's devotion to the noble art of embroidery.
They are both evidence that embroidery is something for everyone; young or
old, poor or rich, famous or unknown - the only thing needed is a needle,
thread, fabric, and a spare moment.
 Henry Fonda (1905-1982) Gustaf V (1858-1950)

For this blog post, we at Past Impressions want to give you a brief outlook on
the history of embroidery, tapestry, crocheting and more with our own timeline of
the history of needlecraft:

 30,000 BC - Cro-Magnon hunter's fur clothes, boots and hat were heavily
decorated with hand stitched horizontal rows of ivory beads. This has been
inferred by fossilized remains discovered in 1964
 3400 B.C. - Earliest known quilted garment is depicted on the carved ivory
figure of a Pharaoh of the Egyptian First Dynasty.
 Fragments of cloth dating from between 5,000 BC and 500 AD have been
excavated from tombs and monuments in South America, Egypt and China
showing crude examples of darning, half cross stitch and satin stitch.
 200-500 AD - Ancient Peruvian running-stitch sampler dated back to this
period in history.
 13th Century - A form of embroidery is believed to have been done on
coarsely woven linen fabric, similar to a canvas mesh.
 Black work becomes popular in Spain under the influence of the Islamic
civilisation of the Moors (756-1492). It is believed to have been brought to
England in the 16th century by Henry VIII's first wife Catherine of Aragon,
and to have influenced the development of cross stitch.
 16th Century - Earliest surviving Ottoman embroideries are made both
professionally and in the palace workshops of Topkapi Palace in Istanbul.
These are a treasured part of Ottoman gardens, poetry and art, all relics of
the Lâle Devri or “the tulip age”.
 1524 - Earliest printed pattern book produced in Germany.
 Needlepoint was a popular past time of the leisure class during the lifetime
of Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587), who did much of it during her long
imprisonment.
 1586 - "La Clef des Champs", a leaflet containing patterns of simplified
flowers and oriental design-inspired animals is published.
 1598 - The oldest surviving linen sampler embroidered with silk and metal
thread, pearls and beads is made by Jane Bostocke, commemorating the
birth a child believed to have been her cousin Alice.
 1615 - The steel needle is invented in the German city of Aachen.
 1653 - Loara Standish, daughter of Mayflower passenger Myles
Standish and pioneer of the Leviathan stitch, completes the earliest known
American cross-stitch sampler. It's currently housed at Pilgrim
Hall in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
 Mid - 1700's - Emergence of crewel embroidery, sometimes called
"spontaneous and vigorous needlework".
 1755 - First ever patent for a needle with an eye is awarded to Elias Howe,
an American inventor and sewing machine pioneer.
 1800 - Daniel Dollfus, son of an accomplished owner of a printed fabrics
factory, adds the family name of his wife Anne-Marie to his own and
establishes the company Dollfus-Mieg & Cie, today known as DMC Creative.
 1804 - A print seller in Berlin introduces blocked and coloured patterns on a
square grid, where each square is a stitch. This had been used in weaving,
but never adapted to embroidery.
 1806 - The Dollfus-Mieg & Cie company exhibit for the first time at the
Exhibition of French Industry in Paris, obtaining a silver medal.
 1826 - Impressed by the success of the threading techniques of the Clark
Mill, a fellow Paisley weaver, James Coats started his own enterprise, which
became known for its fine yarn twisting.
 1828 - Invention of the first embroidery machine in 1828 by the Alsatian
Joseph Heilman makes possible the mass production of embroideries.
 1830 - James Coat's two sons take over the family business, changing the
name to J & P Coats. Initially, it was specialised in sewing and crochet
threads - including mercer crochet. Today they're called Coats Crafts, wildly
known for their range of Anchor threads and kits.
 1840 - During the 'heyday' of printed coloured charts for cross stitch and
canvas work, over 14,000 designs had been published. Sampler making and
cross stitch however would start to go into decline, however, once the craze
for Berlin wool work took over.
 1840's - A group of Scandinavian people come to America, bringing with
them examples of Hardanger embroidery, known sometimes as whitework
embroidery.
 Mid-1800's - In France, the earliest machine embroidery uses a combination
of machine looms and teams of women embroidering the textiles by hand.
 1858 - A style of stitching known as 'Raised-stitch' is first described in
Berlin. This means some or all of the design is raised, with any remainder
done in cross stitch.
 Early 20th Century - During World War I & II hand embroidery was a
popular past time before the invention of the radio, and later, TV.
 Though there was a preference for free-style embroidery (mostly used for
patriotic patterns for events such as King George VI's coronation), cross
stitch survived through the 20's, 30's & 40's thanks to pre-stamped cross
stitch kits, where crosses were already printed onto the fabric and then
stitched over.
 1940 - First issue of 'Needlewoman', a quarterly magazine devoted mainly to
needlework and sewing patterns, is published.
 1970's - 'Hippy handcrafts' see a return to back-to-basic ideas of making
something with your own hands, leading to a boom in needlecraft goods.
 1980 - New and fresh designs, ranging from decorative to more difficult, sees
a resurgence of cross stitch.
 1992 - Past Impressions Ltd. is set up as a mail order company for cross
stitch and needlecraft kits and accessories.
 2003 - Past Impressions starts trading online!
 2005 - Handcrafted good and supply e-commerce website Etsy is founded.
 2010 - The Clothes Show Live 2010, opens up a new area called "Sknitch"
promoting modern sewing, knitting and embroidery.
 ACTIVITIES

A. Direction: Look at the two pictures below and identify them and give
contribution in needle craft.
1. Name:
Contribution:

2. Name:
Contribution:

B. What are the similarities among the gentlemen in the needle craft? Write your
answer to the space provided.
 WRAP–UP

Direction: Kindly give five brief descriptions about the history of needle craft that
would help you to remember about the history of needle craft. Write each
description inside the call out.

VALUING

Needlecraft encompasses a collection of pastimes that are in many ways

integral to the development of civilization. The continuing presence of our crafty
hobbies may seem novel in a contemporary society of digital distractions, but it's
been a powerful artistic tool with a place firmly threaded into the history books.
Own your own idea what is the most significance of knowing the history of
needle craft? Write your answer to the space provided.

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 POST TEST

Direction: Identify the following questions. Write the correct answer.

1. What is a leaflet containing patterns of simplified flowers and
oriental design-inspired animals is published?
2. Where the earliest surviving Ottoman embroideries are made both
professionally and in the palace workshops?
3. What is the French word of embroidery?
4. What is the meaning of the French word of embroidery?

5. When was the earliest printed pattern book produced in Germany?

 REFERENCES
 https://www.google.com/search?q=Needlecraft+images&sxsrf=ALeKk
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CAsQAw&biw=1350&bih=648#imgrc=K5BWHPHOmjoXeM

 https://www.folklorecompany.com/en/embroidery/the-history-of-
embroidery/

 https://www.past-impressions.co.uk/blog/needlecraft-
features/timeline-of-the-history-of- needlecraft/#:~:text=It%20is
%20believed%20to%20have,of%20Topkap i%20Palace%20in
%20Istanbul.