Can I put a strand of hair inside a peace offering I embroidered for a friend of the opposite sex?

Yes.

Embroidery is a general term for a variety of decorative designs embroidered on fabric by needle and thread. Embroidery is divided into two kinds of silk thread embroidery and feather embroidery. It is to use a needle to silk thread or other fibers, yarns in a certain pattern and color in the embroidery material piercing, embroidery marks constitute a pattern of decorative fabrics. It is an art of adding human designs and productions to any fabric in existence using needles and threads.

Embroidery is one of the traditional Chinese folk handicrafts with a history of at least 2,000 to 3,000 years in China. There are four main types of Chinese embroidery: Suzhou embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Shu embroidery and Cantonese embroidery. The techniques of embroidery include: wrong needle embroidery, messy needle embroidery, net embroidery, full-ground embroidery, locking silk, nashi, najin, flat gold, shadow gold, pan gold, paving velvet, scraping velvet, poking yarn, sprinkling thread, picking flowers, etc. The uses of embroidery mainly include life and art decoration, such as clothing, bedding, tablecloths, stage, and artwork decoration.

Cross Stitch:

The earliest cross stitch was embroidered on animal fur fabrics with silk drawn from cocoons, which was later used to decorate clothes and furniture. Cross-stitch with its simple embroidery method, the appearance of noble and gorgeous, delicate and elegant, unique style, soon became popular in the European court, became the first choice of royalty for leisure and entertainment, and then gradually spread to the people.

Widely popular in Europe and the United States and Asia and other countries and regions. After hundreds of years of development, the basic material of cross-stitch is pure cotton embroidery thread, grid fabrics made by special crafts and design scripts, embroidery threads of various colors have been numbered by people, each pattern has been specially treated by designers, and each design script is made in accordance with the thread number, and even if it is a very complicated pattern, as long as it is embroidered according to the location of the design script by choosing the appropriate threads, it can be completed.

Because it is an easy-to-learn and easy-to-understand handicraft hobby, but also artistic innovation, so the popularity is very wide, loved by people of different ages.