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PURL |
Stitch |
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SEW |
Stitch |
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ZIGZAG |
Sewing-machine stitch |
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SUTURE |
Surgical stitch |
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STITCHED |
Of Stitch |
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STITCHING |
Of Stitch |
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KNOT |
Embroidery stitch French ... |
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KNIT |
Embroidery stitch French ... |
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QUILT |
To stitch or sew in lines or patterns. |
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HEADING |
The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch. |
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TATTING |
A kind of lace made from common sewing thread, with a
peculiar stitch. |
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CATSTITCH |
To fold and sew down the edge of with a coarse zigzag
stitch. |
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CHAINWORK |
Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain
stitch work. |
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STITCH |
Any least part of a fabric or dress; as, to wet every
stitch of clothes. |
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STEIK |
To pierce with a sharp instrument; hence, to stitch; to
sew; also, to fix; to fasten. |
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CHAIN STITCH |
An ornamental stitch like the links of a chain; -- used
in crocheting, sewing, and embroidery. |
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CROSS-STITCH |
A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and
in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other. |
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BACKSTITCH |
A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of
the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end. |
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TENSION |
A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a
sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of
tightness. |
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LOCK STITCH |
A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two
threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See
Stitch. |
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SEAM |
To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a
stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such
knitting. |
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SHUTTLE |
The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which
carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a
lock stitch. |
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TAKE-UP |
That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in
a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises,
in completing a stitch. |
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OVERHAND |
Over and over; -- applied to a style of sewing, or to a
seam, in which two edges, usually selvedges, are sewed together by
passing each stitch over both. |