#embroidery

• Persian embroidery — A regional form or old phonetic variant used in certain rural communities to designate a decoration, fine embroidery, or ornamental stitching crafted in Persian or Oriental style on festive garments; by contextual extension, it can also refer to a precious silk fabric or a piece of traditional boyar clothing from the Phanariot era, adorned with gold thread.
• Openwork — An artistic embroidery or decorative openwork fabric made by drawing out weft threads and grouping the remaining ones, or through controlled perforation, forming a network of aesthetic geometric holes; by extension, any ornament or structural element (in architecture, jewelry, or woodwork) featuring symmetrical decorative cutouts that allow the partial passage of light.
• Woven pattern — A popular and regional term that designates the result of selecting or sorting, representing either a group of carefully chosen items or a complex decorative pattern hand-woven or embroidered on traditional clothing. In a figurative sense, it can refer to an elite or a category of things or people considered qualitatively superior.
• Shoulder embroidery — A wide decorative section, richly embroidered with geometric, floral, or abstract motifs, located at the upper part of the sleeve of the traditional Romanian folk costume shirt (especially on the women's blouse known as 'ie'), placed on the shoulder.
• Shoulder embroideries — Plural form of the feminine noun 'altiță'; designates the wide and meticulously embroidered ornamental bands placed horizontally on the shoulders of traditional Romanian shirts (ii), representing the defining element of folkloric ornamental composition.
• Arnica plant — A regional Romanian popular name for the medicinal plant Arnica montana or, specifically, for brightly colored textile threads (usually red or black) traditionally used by women to embroider folk costumes.
• Embroidery thread — A spun, twisted, and mercerized cotton thread, usually dyed in bright and durable colors (such as deep red, black, or blue), traditionally used in rural households for embroidering folk costumes, traditional blouses (ii), and ornamental towels.
• Arniciu red — A regional color adjective describing an intense, bright red or vivid crimson shade, resembling the characteristic color of traditional arnici embroidery threads used in folk crafts.