Featherstitch
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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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Cretan stitch
- Closed Cretan stitch
- Closed Cretan stitch
- Faggotting with twisted Cretan stitch
- Fly stitch
- Loop stitch
- Scroll stitch
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ 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[edit]
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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 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