France · Hook Chain-Stitch Hand Embroidery
Broderie au Point de Beauvais
Point de Beauvais is a Parisian hand-embroidery technique that forms a chain stitch using a fine hook — historically called a Lunéville hook — worked on fabric stretched taut across a frame, rather than the needle used in most European embroidery traditions. Also known as point de Pompadour for the noblewomen who favored it, the technique's hook tool originated in China and reached Europe via 18th-century trade with the Indies. Maison Duchénoy, a Paris embroidery house founded in 1903, reoriented around Point de Beauvais in 1956 to build its household-linen atelier, and the technique became the house's international reputation, still practiced today alongside Cornely machine embroidery, needle embroidery, and raphia embroidery across its Paris and Madagascar workshops.
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