Embroidery is an art of decorating fibers. It is believed that embroidery and most other fiber and needlework arts were originated in the Orient and Middle East. At a time it was a sign of wealth. Much historical scenery is found embroidered onto fabric such as Bayeux Tapestry; it is 331 feet long and was made in 1066. History says that the embroidery was started in the Cro-Magnon days or 30,000 BC. In the 1800s, Joshua Heilmann improved the design of a hand embroidery machine. The discovery of the shuttle embroidery has influenced the industrial application of embroidery. It is an art that aware people to be more beautiful. Before the Second World War Switzerland and Germany were the leading embroidery machine manufacturers in the globe. Embroidery digitizing machines and software has been developed as technology developed too. To produce digitized embroidered patterns two components are required alternatively. In USA embroidery machines were imported from Plauen, Germany, to northern New Jersey's Hudson County by Dr. Robert Reiner in 1903.
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