Editing Embroidery (section)

== Machine embroidery ==
[[File:Brother Innov-is V7 machine, embroidering.jpg|thumb|[[Brother Industries|Brother]] Innov-is V7 computerised Sewing/Quilting/Embroidery machine embroidering onto cloth held in a hoop]]
[[File:Machine chain stitch.jpg|thumb|Commercial machine embroidery in [[chain stitch]] on a [[voile]] curtain, China, early 21st century]]
[[mass production|Mass-produced]] machine embroidery emerged in the early 20th century. As embroidery shifted from personalized craft to mechanical output during the [[Industrial Revolution]], the craft developed into a structured industry centered on large-scale production.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Adamson |first=Glenn |title=The Invention of Craft |date=Jan 10, 2019 |publisher=Bloomsbury Visual Arts |isbn=0857850644 |edition=1st |location=London}}</ref> The first embroidery machine was the [[hand embroidery machine]], invented in France in 1832 by Josué Heilmann.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://trc-leiden.nl/trc-needles/tools/embroidery/hand-embroidery-machine|title=Hand Embroidery Machine|last=Willem|website=trc-leiden.nl|language=en-gb|access-date=2019-02-19}}</ref> The next evolutionary step was the [[schiffli embroidery machine]]. The latter borrowed from the sewing machine and the [[Jacquard machine|Jacquard loom]] to fully automate its operation. The manufacture of [[St. Gallen Embroidery|machine-made embroideries]] in [[St. Gallen]] in eastern Switzerland flourished in the latter half of the 19th century.<ref>Röllin, Peter. ''Stickerei-Zeit, Kultur und Kunst in St. Gallen 1870–1930''. VGS Verlagsgemeinschaft, St. Gallen 1989, {{ISBN|3-7291-1052-7}} (in German)</ref> Both St. Gallen, Switzerland and [[Plauen|Plauen, Germany]] were important centers for machine embroidery and embroidery machine development. Many Swiss and Germans immigrated to [[Hudson County, New Jersey|Hudson county, New Jersey]] in the early twentieth century and developed a machine embroidery industry there. Shiffli machines have continued to evolve and are still used for industrial scale embroidery.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3qkQAQAAMAAJ|title=Machine Made Embroideries|last=Schneider|first=Coleman|date=1968|publisher=Globe Lithographing Company|language=en}}</ref>

Contemporary embroidery is stitched with a [[computer]]ized embroidery machine using patterns digitized with embroidery software. In [[machine embroidery]], different types of "fills" add texture and design to the finished work. [[Machine embroidery]] is used to add [[logo]]s and [[monogram]]s to business shirts or jackets, gifts, and team apparel as well as to decorate household items for the bed and bath and other linens, draperies, and decorator fabrics that mimic the elaborate hand embroidery of the past.

Machine embroidery is most typically done with [[Rayon|rayon thread]], although [[Polyester|polyester thread]] can also be used. [[Cotton]] thread, on the other hand, is prone to breaking and is avoided.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.threadsmagazine.com/2008/11/02/choosing-machine-embroidery-threads|title=Choosing Machine-Embroidery Threads|date=2008-11-02|work=Threads Magazine|access-date=2018-11-27|publisher=The Taunton Press, Inc|language=en-US}}</ref>

There has also been a development in free hand machine embroidery, new machines have been designed that allow for the user to create free-motion embroidery which has its place in textile arts, quilting, dressmaking, home furnishings and more. Users can use the embroidery software to digitize the digital embroidery designs. These digitized design are then transferred to the embroidery machine with the help of a flash drive and then the embroidery machine embroiders the selected design onto the fabric.