Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An embroidery stitch that produces a decorative zigzag line.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A stitch used in embroidery, producing a partial imitation of feathers by small branches or filaments that ramify from a main stem. In medieval embroidery it was called opus plumarium.
- To ornament with feather-stitching.
Wiktionary
- n. A kind of embroidery stitch made of open, looped stitches worked alternately to the right and left of a central rib.
- v. To make stitches of this kind.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.
Etymologies
- feather + stitch (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And when she found how neatly she could hemstitch and do such beautiful featherstitch, and darn, and read so plainly that it was a pleasure to listen to her, she had to admit that Hannah Ann was a real credit, and, she confessed in her secret heart, a very sweet little girl.”
“As it extended, I brought out a line of goods suitable for kings, and a nobby thing for duchesses and that sort, with ruffles down the forehatch and the running-gear clewed up with a featherstitch to leeward and then hauled aft with a back-stay and triced up with”
“On the third day of her visits, when apparently occupied in learning how to do featherstitch for trimming baby's pinafores, Mrs. Peck looked up from her work, and asked Elsie if she did not come from ----- shire.”
“Although Mrs. Goetz's chocolate-brown dress was embroidered with fancy black featherstitch, the outfit was gussied up with a long double strand of pearls.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘featherstitch’.
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Embroidery
"The art of working with the needle raised and ornamental designs in threads of silk, cotton, gold, silver, or other material, upon any woven fabric, leather, paper, etc. Embroidery has been used i...
embroidery, French knot, palestrina stitch, Algerian eye, satin stitch, cross-stitch, tent stitch, chain stitch, lazy daisy stitch, buttonhole stitch, blanket stitch, blanket-stitch and 26 more...
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Knitting
Add anything you like--I'm sure we can stitch it all together somehow.
knit, knitting, yarn, K, P, YO, SSK, loop, cast on, stockinette, purl, knit two together and 54 more...
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