Lesson Planning
Learn about crewelwork embroidery and how this was very fashionable in the 18th Century; learn backstitch embroidery; design a bag and embroider it in backstitch.
Teaching Outcomes:
- Learn how embroidery has been used through the ages to decorate items of clothing.
- Learn back stitch and embroider a crewelwork design.
Children will:
- Learn what is meant by embroidery and how it has been used to decorate clothing through the ages.
- Understand what is meant by crewelwork embroidery and how it was fashionable in the 18th century.
- Learn to do back stitch embroidery.
- Draw a design on a felt pattern piece and embroider it in back stitch.