Embroidery is a hand craft that uses textiles like string and yarn to create designs and patterns traditionally on fabric surfaces. In earlier societies, rulers, the nobility and elites from various parts of the world would embellish their garments with beautiful embroidered patterns representing nature, cultural traditions, and other imaginative designs. These patterns were stitched with colored threads of spun cotton, wool, silk, flax, and sometimes with filaments of silver, gold, and brass. The upper classes liked to display their wealth by stitching precious and semi-precious stones into an embroidered design. Since early on its existence, the teaching of embroidery and needlework served to teach young women the feminine ideals of domesticity, obedience, and silence within a home. So young women were taught by their mothers to use embroidery to take up their time. Even to this day most people associate embroidery with a boring way to fill up a housewife's daily life. The uninteresting procedure of producing a stitched picture on a cloth may seem to many uninitiated a sheer waste of time. But, once you learn more about it, you may come to discover how incredibly fascinating it is. Through this project we will begin to learn how many applications embroidery has and what an effect it can make on contemporary works of art. It is a unique and interesting way to incorporate mixed media into our works of art.