straight stitch

Running stitches are used in hand-sewing and tailoring to sew basic seams, hems and gathers; in hand patchwork to assemble pieces of light fabrics; and in quilting to hold the fabric layers and batting or wadding in place.Complete Guide to Needlework, p. 200, 220 Loosely spaced rows of short running stitches are used to support padded satin stitch.

Darning has two purposes, decorative and functional, though it is often both.{{cite web |title=Pattern Darning |url=https://sewguide.com/pattern-darning/ |website=Sew Guide |access-date=27 January 2021}} Darning for decorative purposes, often referred to as Pattern darning, is an ancient technique in which parallel rows of straight stitches in varying lengths are arranged to form geometric patterns.Christie, Grace: Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving, London, John Hogg, 1912 Japanese Kogin embroidery is a pattern darning style from the island of Honshū, often worked in white cotton thread on rough, dark blue indigo-dyed linen.

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Running stitches are a component of many traditional embroidery styles, including kantha of India and Bangladesh, and Japanese sashiko quilting and other embroidery styles such as pattern darning and redwork.Gillow, John, and Bryan Sentance: World Textiles, Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown, 1999, {{ISBN|0-8212-2621-5}}, p. 172-173 Running stitches are the primary stitch used in Colonial American bed rugs.{{Cite book |last=Weissman |first=Judith R. |title=Labors of love: America's textiles and needlework, 1650 - 1930 |last2=Lavitt |first2=Wendy |date=1994 |publisher=Wings Books |isbn=978-0-517-10136-0 |location=New York}}{{Rp|page=25}}

• The running stitch family includes looped running stitches, laced running stitches, whipped running stitches, and others like the Holbein stitch, seed stitch and more.{{Cite web|title=Running Stitch Family|url=https://www.embroidery.rocksea.org/stitch/running-stitch/|access-date=2020-07-14|website=Sarah's Hand Embroidery Tutorials|language=en-US}}
• Basting stitches, also called "tailor's tack", are long-running stitches used to keep two pieces of fabric or trim aligned during final sewing, or to otherwise temporarily sew two pieces together.
• Darning stitches are closely spaced parallel rows of running stitches used to fill or reinforce worn areas of a textile, or as decoration.
• Holbein or double-running stitches have a second row of running stitches worked in a reverse direction in between the stitches of the first pass, to make a solid line of stitching.
• Double darning stitches are closely spaced (but not overlapping) rows of Holbein stitches.Complete Guide to Needlework, p. 46-47
• The saddle stitch, commonly used in leathercrafting and shoemaking, consists of two running stitches done at the same time using a single thread with a needle at either end.

Image:Arrowhead stitch.gif|Arrowhead stitch

Image:Eye stitch.gif|Eye stitch

Image:Algerian eye stitch.gif|Algerian eye stitch

Image:Fishbone stitch.gif|Fishbone stitch

Image:Open fishbone stitch.gif|Open fishbone stitch

Image:Raised fishbone stitch.gif|Raised fishbone stitch

Image:Flat stitch.gif|Flat stitch

• Blackwork embroidery
• Darning
• Embroidery stitches

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• Caulfield, S.F.A., and B.C. Saward, The Dictionary of Needlework, 1885.
• Christie, Grace (Mrs. Archibald Christie: Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving, London, John Hogg, 1912
• Eaton, Jan. Mary Thomas's Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches, Revised by Jan Eaton. London: Hodder&Stoughton, 1989. {{ISBN|0-340-51075-7}}
• 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}}
• Levey, S. M. and D. King, The Victoria and Albert Museum's Textile Collection Vol. 3: Embroidery in Britain from 1200 to 1750, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1993, {{ISBN|1-85177-126-3}}
• [https://www.embroidery.rocksea.org/ Sarah's Hand Embroidery Tutorials].

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• [http://www.nma.gov.au/collections/collection_interactives/ The Crimson Thread of Kinship is a 12-metre-long embroidery predominantly using a straight stitch] at the National Museum of Australia

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