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Machine embroidery is a term that can be used to describe two different actions. The first is using a sewing machine to "manually" create (either freehand or with built in stitches) a design a piece of fabric or other similar item.

The second is to use a specially designed embroidery or sewing embroidery machine to automatically create a design of a pre-made of a pattern that is input into the machine. Most embroidery machines used by professionals and hobbyists today are driven by computers that read digitized embroidery files created by special software.