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Embroidery stitching technique
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.
Applications
Feather stitch is a decorative stitch which is usually accompanied with embellishments.
[2] Cretan stitch is characteristic of embroidery of
Crete and the surrounding regions.
[3]
Open Cretan stitch or faggoting is used in making open decorative seams and to attach insertions.
Feather stitch 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]
Variants
Common variants of featherstitch include:
[4]
[1]
Basic featherstitch
Long-armed featherstitch
Double featherstitch
Closed featherstitch
Chained feather stitch
Cloud 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:
[4]
[1]
Cretan stitch
[5] or Open Cretan stitch or faggoting stitch
Closed Cretan stitch
Fishbone stitch
Fly stitch ,
[6] a filling stitch made of single, detached tacked loops.
Loop stitch
Scroll stitch
Gallery
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
^ Sarah (2011-01-26).
"Feather Stitch" . Sarah's Hand Embroidery Tutorials . Retrieved 2019-04-17 .
^ 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
^ Willem.
"Cretan Stitch" . trc-leiden.nl . Retrieved 2021-07-10 .
^ Willem.
"Fly Stitch" . trc-leiden.nl . Retrieved 2021-07-10 .
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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