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Featherstitch

Embroidery stitching technique

Featherstitch

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. Fly stitch is categorized with the featherstitches.

Applications

Feather stitch is a decorative stitch which is usually accompanied with embellishments. Cretan stitch is characteristic of embroidery of Crete and the surrounding regions.

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.

Variants

Common variants of featherstitch include:

  • Basic featherstitch
  • Long-armed featherstitch
  • Double featherstitch
  • Closed featherstitch
  • Chained feather stitch
  • Cloud stitch

Image:Feather stitch2.gif|Featherstitch Image:Feather stitch variations.jpg|Closed featherstitch as a couching stitch, left, and long-armed featherstitch, right Image:Double feather stitch.gif|Double featherstitch Image:Chained feather stitch.gif|Chained featherstitch

Looped stitches

Other looped stitches include:

  • 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

Image:Cretan stitch2.gif|Cretan stitch Image:Cretan stitch.jpg|Closed Cretan stitch Image:Cretan stitch variation.gif|Closed Cretan stitch Image:Insertion.jpg|Faggotting with twisted Cretan stitch Image:Fly stitch.jpg|Fly stitch Image:Loop stitch.gif|Loop stitch Image:Scroll stitch.gif|Scroll stitch

Notes

References

  • 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,
  • Reader's Digest, Complete Guide to Needlework. The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. (March 1992).

References

  1. Reader's Digest ''Complete Guide to Needlework''. The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. (March 1992). {{ISBN. 0-89577-059-8, p. 39-41
  2. Sarah. (2011-01-26). "Feather Stitch".
  3. Christie, Grace: ''Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving'', London, John Hogg, 1912
  4. Enthoven, Jacqueline: ''The Creative Stitches of Embroidery'', Van Norstrand Rheinhold, 1964, {{ISBN. 0-442-22318-8
  5. Willem. "Cretan Stitch".
  6. Willem. "Fly Stitch".
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