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.
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
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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
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Cretan stitch -
Closed Cretan stitch -
Closed Cretan stitch -
Faggotting with twisted Cretan stitch -
Fly stitch -
Loop stitch -
Scroll stitch
See also
Notes
- ^ 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
- ^ Christie, Grace: Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving, London, John Hogg, 1912
- ^ 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
