Featherstitch

Featherstitch
Drawing of Cretan embroidery in closed Cretan stitch from Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving, 1912
Featherstitch

Featherstitch or feather stitch and Cretan stitch or faggoting stitch are embroidery techniques made of open, looped stitches worked alternately to the right and left of a central rib.[1] Fly stitch is categorized with the featherstitches.

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Applications

Cretan stitch is characteristic of embroidery of Crete and the surrounding regions.[2]

Open Cretan stitch or faggoting is used in making open decorative seams and to attach insertions.

Featherstitch embroidery arose in England in the 19th century for decorating smock-frocks. It is also used to decorate the joins in crazy quilting. It is related to (and probably derives from) the older buttonhole stitch and chain stitch.[1]

Featherstitch variants

Common variants of featherstitch include: [3] [1]

  • Basic featherstitch
  • Long-armed featherstitch
  • Double featherstitch
  • Closed featherstitch
  • Chained feather stitch

Stitch gallery

  • Featherstitch

  • Closed featherstitch as a couching stitch, left, and long-armed featherstitch, right

  • Double featherstitch

  • Chained featherstitch

Looped stitches

Other looped stitches include: [3][1]

  • Cretan stitch or Open Cretan stitch or faggoting stitch
  • Closed Cretan stitch
  • Fishbone stitch
  • Fly stitch, a filling stitch made of single, detached tacked loops.
  • Loop stitch
  • Scroll stitch

Gallery

  • Cretan stitch

  • Closed Cretan stitch

  • Closed Cretan stitch

  • Faggotting with twisted Cretan stitch

  • Fly stitch

  • Loop stitch

  • Scroll stitch

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Needlework. The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. (March 1992). ISBN 0-89577-059-8, p. 39-41
  2. ^ Christie, Grace: Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving, London, John Hogg, 1912
  3. ^ a b Enthoven, Jacqueline: The Creative Stitches of Embroidery, Van Norstrand Rheinhold, 1964, ISBN 0-442-22318-8

References

  • Caulfield, S.F.A., and B.C. Saward, The Dictionary of Needlework, 1885.
  • Christie, Mrs. Archibald (Grace Christie), Embroidery and Tpestry Weaving, London, John Hogg, 1912, online at Project Gutenberg
  • Enthoven, Jacqueline: The Creative Stitches of Embroidery, Van Norstrand Rheinhold, 1964, ISBN 0-442-22318-8
  • Reader's Digest, Complete Guide to Needlework. The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. (March 1992). ISBN 0-89577-059-8
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  • Featherstitch — Feath er*stitch , n. A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • featherstitch — [feth′ərstich΄] n. [so called from resemblance to the arrangement of barbs on a feather] an embroidery stitch forming a zigzag line vt., vi. to embroider with such a stitch …   English World dictionary

  • featherstitch — noun Date: 1835 an embroidery stitch consisting of a line of diagonal blanket stitches worked alternately to the left and right • featherstitch verb …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • featherstitch — /fedh euhr stich /, n. 1. an embroidery stitch producing work in which a succession of branches extend alternately on each side of a central stem. v.t. 2. to ornament by featherstitch. [1825 35; FEATHER + STITCH1] * * * …   Universalium

  • featherstitch — feath•er•stitch [[t]ˈfɛð ərˌstɪtʃ[/t]] n. 1) clo an embroidery stitch producing a pattern of alternating branches along a central stem 2) clo to ornament by featherstitch • Etymology: 1825–35 …   From formal English to slang

  • featherstitch — /ˈfɛðəstɪtʃ/ (say fedhuhstich) noun 1. an embroidery stitch producing work in which a succession of branches extend alternately on each side of a central stem. –verb (t) 2. to ornament by featherstitch …  

  • featherstitch — I. | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ noun : an embroidery stitch consisting of a line of diagnonal blanket stitches worked alternately to the left and right II. verb : to embroider in featherstitch …   Useful english dictionary

  • featherstitch — n. type of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line …   English contemporary dictionary

  • feath|er|stitch|ing — «FEHTH uhr STIHCH ihng», noun. = featherstitch. (Cf. ↑featherstitch) …   Useful english dictionary

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