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Detached woven picot

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Woven picots can be worked large or small, thin or wide. Detached picots are attached to the supporting material only at the base and can only be worked with three or five prongs. You could use fine beading wire for the outside prongs of a detached picot to create shapes that you can bend and manipulate.

See also the entry for woven picots.

 

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Method

The maximum length of a detached woven picot is approximately 1.5cm - any longer than this and they become unstable.

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Place a pin in the fabric to mark the top of the picot. Bring the thread up, wrap it round the pin and take it down.

Detached woven picot method stage 2 photograph
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Bring the needle back through halfway at the bottom of the picot.

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Wrap the thread around the pin again.

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Do not take the thread through to the back of the fabric. Instead, weave the thread backwards and forwards across the shape’s prongs, as in a normal woven picot.

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Continue weaving the thread.

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When reaching the bottom of the shape with your weaving, take the thread through to the back of the fabric on the side on which you finish weaving.

Detached woven picot method stage 7 photograph
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Remove the pin and bend the picot upwards, away from the fabric, with the end of the pin.

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Completed detached woven picot

Detached woven picot

Embroidery Techniques

Identifying Detached woven picot

​A detached woven picot can be identified by its triangular shape and its weaved thread in between the prongs, of which there will be either three or five. The detached woven picot’s top point will not be attached to the fabric, whereas a woven picot will have both its top and bottom points attached.

References

  • Mary Thomas’s Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches (1934) , p.163
  • Various Authors, The Royal School of Needlework Book of Embroidery (2018) , p.271
  • Mrs Archibald Christie, Samplers and Stitches (1921) , p.122