For the technique used to shorten rope or cable for storage or while in use Chain sinnet File Kazakh rug chain stitch embroidery.jpg right thumb 350px Traditional embroidery in chain stitch on a Kazakhstan Kazakh rug, contemporary. Chain stitch is a sewing and embroidery technique in which a series of looped stitches form a chain like pattern. ref Reader s Digest Complete Guide to Needlework . The Reader s Digest Association, Inc. March 1992 . ISBN 0 89577 059 8, p. 32 33 ref Chain stitch is an ancient craft examples of surviving China Chinese chain stitch embroidery worked in silk yarn thread have been dated to the Warring States period 5th 3rd century BC . ref Gillow, John, and Bryan Sentance World Textiles , Bulfinch Press Little, Brown, 1999, ISBN 0 8212 2621 5, p. 178 ref Handmade chain stitch embroidery does not require that the needle pass through more than one layer of fabric. For this reason the stitch is an effective surface embellishment near seams on finished fabric. Because chain stitches can form flowing, curved lines, they are used in many surface embroidery styles that mimic drawing in thread. ref Gillow and Sentance World Textiles , p. 178 ref Chain stitches are also used in making tambour lace , needlelace , macram and crochet . Applications Image Machine chain stitch.jpg left thumb 250px Machine embroidery in chain stitch on a voile curtain, China , early 21st century. Hand embroidery Chain stitch and its variations are fundamental to embroidery traditions of many cultures, including Kashmir i numdah s , Iran ian Resht embroidery Resht work, Central Asia n Suzani rug suzani , Hungary Hungarian Kalotaszeg written embroidery , ref Gillow and Sentance World Textiles , p. 178 179 ref Jacobean embroidery , and crewel embroidery crewelwork . Machine sewing and embroidery Chain stitch was the stitch used by early sewing machine s however, as it is easily unraveled from fabric, this was soon replaced with the more secure lockstitch . This ease of unravel ... more details
File Jonas Hanway by James Northcote.jpg thumb upright Portrait of Jonas Hanway by James Northcote , circa 1785. Jonas Hanway August 12, 1712 September 5, 1786 , England English traveller and philanthropist , was born at Portsmouth , on the south coast of England. Life While he was still a child his father, a victualler , died, and the family moved to London . In 1729 Jonas was apprenticed to a merchant in Lisbon . In 1743, after he had been some time in business for himself in London, he became a partner with Mr Dingley, a merchant in St Petersburg , and in this way was led to travel in Russia and Persia . Leaving St Petersburg on 10 September 1743, and passing south by Moscow , Tsaritsyn and Astrakhan , he embarked on the Caspian Sea on 22 November and arrived at Astrabad on 18 December. Here his goods were seized by Mohammed Hassan Beg , and it was only after great privations that he reached the camp of Nadir Shah , under whose protection he recovered most 85 of his property. His return journey was embarrassed by sickness at Resht , by attacks from pirates, and by six weeks quarantine and he only reappeared at St Petersburg on 1 January 1745. He again left the Russian capital on 9 July 1750 and travelled through Germany and the Netherlands to England 28 October . The rest of his life was mostly spent in London, where the narrative of his travels published in 1753 soon made him a man of note, and where he devoted himself to philanthropy and good citizenship. Deleted image removed Image JonasHanway.jpg thumb left Advertising cartouche of Jonas Hanway, used by Kendall & Sons Ltd umbrella manufacturers puic 1 JonasHanway.jpg log 2009 March 26 In 1756, Hanway founded The Marine Society , to keep up the supply of British seamen in 1758, he became a governor of the Foundling Hospital , a position which was upgraded to vice president in 1772 he was instrumental in establishing the Magdalen Hospital in 1761 he procured a better system of parochial birth registration in Lo ... more details
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