Featherstitch
Featherstitchorfeather stitchandCretan stitchorfaggoting stitchareembroiderytechniques made of open, loopedstitchesworked alternately to the right and left of a central rib.[1]Fly stitch is categorized with the featherstitches.
Applications
[edit]Feather stitch is a decorative stitch which is usually accompanied with embellishments.[2]Cretan stitch is characteristic of embroidery ofCreteand the surrounding regions.[3]
Open Cretan stitch or faggoting is used in making open decorative seams and to attach insertions.
Feather stitch embroidery arose inEnglandin the 19th century for decoratingsmock-frocks.It is also used to decorate the joins incrazy quilting.It is related to (and probably derives from) the olderbuttonhole stitchandchain stitch.[1]
Variants
[edit]Common variants of featherstitch include:[4][1]
- Basic featherstitch
- Long-armed featherstitch
- Double featherstitch
- Closed featherstitch
- Chained feather stitch
- Cloud stitch
Stitch gallery
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Featherstitch -
Closed featherstitch as acouching stitch,left, and long-armed featherstitch, right -
Double featherstitch -
Chained featherstitch
Looped stitches
[edit]Other looped stitches include:[4][1]
- Cretan stitch[5]orOpen Cretan stitchorfaggoting stitch
- Closed Cretan stitch
- Fishbone stitch
- Fly stitch,[6]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
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^abcdReader's DigestComplete Guide to Needlework.The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. (March 1992).ISBN0-89577-059-8,p. 39-41
- ^Sarah (2011-01-26)."Feather Stitch".Sarah's Hand Embroidery Tutorials.Retrieved2019-04-17.
- ^Christie, Grace:Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving,London, John Hogg, 1912
- ^abEnthoven, Jacqueline:The Creative Stitches of Embroidery,Van Norstrand Rheinhold, 1964,ISBN0-442-22318-8
- ^Willem."Cretan Stitch".trc-leiden.nl.Retrieved2021-07-10.
- ^Willem."Fly Stitch".trc-leiden.nl.Retrieved2021-07-10.
References
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- 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 atProject Gutenberg
- Enthoven, Jacqueline:The Creative Stitches of Embroidery,Van Norstrand Rheinhold, 1964,ISBN0-442-22318-8
- Reader's Digest,Complete Guide to Needlework.The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. (March 1992).ISBN0-89577-059-8
