feather stitch
Sign in to saveAlso known as Cretan stitch, faggoting stitch, featherstitch
right|thumb|200px|Drawing of Cretan embroidery in closed Cretan stitch from Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving, 1912 right|thumb|150px|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.
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- Applications
- Variants
- Stitch gallery
- Looped stitches
- Gallery
- See also
- Notes
- References
right|thumb|200px|Drawing of Cretan embroidery in closed Cretan stitch from Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving, 1912 right|thumb|150px|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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “feather stitch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.