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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
[edit]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
[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 a couching stitch, left, and long-armed featherstitch, right
Double featherstitch
Chained featherstitch
Looped stitches
[edit]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
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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]- 1 2 3 4 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
- 1 2 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
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- Caulfield, S.F.A., and B.C. Saward, The Dictionary of Needlework, 1885.
- Christie, Mrs. Archibald (Grace Christie), Embroidery and Tapestry 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
