straight or running stitch is the basic stitch in hand-sewing and embroidery, on which all other forms of sewing are based. The stitch is worked by passing...

back stitch and its variants stem stitch, outline stitch and split stitch are a class of embroidery and sewing stitches in which individual stitches are...

chain stitch Singalese chain stitch Twisted chain stitch Wheat-ear stitch Zig-zag chain stitch Basic chain stitch Braid stitch Cable chain stitch Knotted...

Cross-stitch is a form of sewing and a popular form of counted-thread embroidery in which X-shaped stitches in a tiled, raster-like pattern are used to...

In sewing and embroidery, a satin stitch or damask stitch is a series of flat stitches that are used to completely cover a section of the background fabric...

and Albert Museum in London. Examples of buttonhole or blanket stitches include: Blanket stitch Buttonhole stitch Closed buttonhole stitch, in which the...

individual items while using a single stitch type at a time. In a modern sewing machine, the process of stitching has been automated, so that the fabric...

or stitches of the earliest embroidery are chain stitch, buttonhole or blanket stitch, running stitch, satin stitch, and cross stitch. Those stitches remain...

had a single, continuous thread. Whereas the schiffli machine used a lock stitch, the same technique used by the sewing machine. By the early twentieth century...

herringbone stitch Tied herringbone stitch Montenegrin stitch Thorn stitch Trellis stitch Van Dyke stitch Cross-stitch Embroidery stitch Gillow, John...