featherstitch
{{Short description|Embroidery stitching technique}}
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.Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Needlework. The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. (March 1992). {{ISBN|0-89577-059-8}}, p. 39-41 Fly stitch is categorized with the featherstitches.
Applications
Feather stitch is a decorative stitch which is usually accompanied with embellishments.{{Cite web|url=http://www.embroidery.rocksea.org/stitch/feather-stitch/feather-stitch/|title=Feather Stitch|last=Sarah|date=2011-01-26|website=Sarah's Hand Embroidery Tutorials|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-17}} Cretan stitch is characteristic of embroidery of Crete and the surrounding regions.Christie, Grace: Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving, London, John Hogg, 1912
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:Enthoven, Jacqueline: The Creative Stitches of Embroidery, Van Norstrand Rheinhold, 1964, {{ISBN|0-442-22318-8}}
- Basic featherstitch
- Long-armed featherstitch
- Double featherstitch
- Closed featherstitch
- Chained feather stitch
- Cloud stitch
=Stitch gallery=
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{{Cite web|last=Willem|title=Cretan Stitch|url=https://trc-leiden.nl/trc-needles/techniques/embroidery/embroidery-stitches/cretan-stitch|access-date=2021-07-10|website=trc-leiden.nl|language=en-gb}} or Open Cretan stitch or faggoting stitch
- Closed Cretan stitch
- Fishbone stitch
- Fly stitch,{{Cite web|last=Willem|title=Fly Stitch|url=https://trc-leiden.nl/trc-needles/techniques/embroidery/embroidery-stitches/fly-stitch|access-date=2021-07-10|website=trc-leiden.nl|language=en-gb}} a filling stitch made of single, detached tacked loops.
- Loop stitch
- Scroll stitch
=Gallery=
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
See also
Notes
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 [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20386/20386-h/20386-h.htm 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}}
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