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You’re part of the family the Embroidery Legacy Family. It’s all there for you, and we will be with you every step of the way. His experiments with wooden clocks brought you the embroidery machine you use today! Look everywhere for inspiration, look at textures, try something new, take a class…. The biggest takeaway from this week’s discussion is not to be deterred! Antoine Bonnaz was an inventive engineer who never went to school and liked to tinker. Try your hand at making a chain stitch motif to be used as a decorative line or fill- a discussion of that can be found in our Wilcom Hatch Embroidery Facts Facebook group.
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We have mentioned chain stitch, but what is it really?įor those of you who crochet, you know that you take your hook and dip it through a loop of yarn and hook the next section of yarn, pulling it through the previous loop. This meant you or I could purchase a machine and use it at home to create linens, adorn clothing, and more. The machines were wildly popular and truly created a female-based industry as the earlier hand embroidery workforce was composed almost solely of women. In addition to that, Cornely improved upon the original designs, creating machines capable of making chenille (called a moss stitch), braiding, taping, and other designs. They were easy to use, could be used in the home or a small workroom, and as the mechanism developed, it became difficult to distinguish machine stitching from hand sewn. These were the first machines to accurately and quickly create a chain stitch which imitated the work done by hand on a tambour frame.
The patent was eventually acquired by Ercole Cornely in Paris, who made improvements by developing a hook-shaped needle that could create a line of chain stitches. With that history in mind, now enters the star of our show…. After receiving his patent, he sold it to the firm Hurtu et Hautin in Paris, who were well known for making cording machines and produced bicycles and, later, motor cars.
Basing his invention on Thimonnier’s sewing machine but also solving design problems, he obtained the patent for his machine called “couso-brodeur”, meaning “sewing embroidery” in 1863.
As he worked with the hand-embroiderers, he was compelled to think of ways to reproduce their handiwork with a machine. Joseph Jacquard developed his loom in 1800, and Barthelemy Thimonnier invented the sewing machine in 1825.Īttracted by these machines, Antoine received work as a mechanic in a silk factory. As a child, school was not compulsory, and he amused himself by tinkering with machines and creating things such as a wooden clock, cutting the gears en mass. His family had a history of gun-making along with other machinery.