back-stitch

Use a back-stitch, and make the stitches fairly close together.

"The Pink Rose" by Federico Andreotti (1847-1930) 2009

_Sewing up the seams with a running-stitch and a back-stitch.

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools Ontario. Ministry of Education

When running is combined with a back-stitch, two or more running-stitches and one back-stitch are taken alternately.

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools Ontario. Ministry of Education

The teacher should first demonstrate the running-stitch with the back-stitch, and the pupils should begin to sew the sides of the bag, using this stitch.

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools Ontario. Ministry of Education

The little faces are worked over a padding of soft frayed silk or wool, the features being drawn in fine back-stitch.

Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Emily Leigh Lowes

The back-stitch is a stitch taken backward on the upper side of the cloth, the needle being put back each time into the end of the last stitch and brought out the same distance beyond the last stitch.

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools Ontario. Ministry of Education

She knew how to hemstitch, but not how to back-stitch, and it was before the days when sewing machines were made as much a part of the household equipment as beds and chairs.

War-time sketches : historical and otherwise, Adelaide Stuart Dimitry 1911

INTERLACING-STITCH SAMPLER -- A, Interlaced crewel-stitch; B, interlaced back-stitch; C, back-stitch twice interlaced; D, interlaced chain-stitch; E, interlaced darning; F, interlaced herringbone; G, herringbone twice interlaced; H, an interlaced version of C in

Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery Mary Buckle 1877

SIMPLE STITCHING ON LINEN, the broader bands in a canvas stitch in yellow, the finer lines in back-stitch in pale grey silk.

Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery Mary Buckle 1877

To work the SPOTS (F) on sampler -- having made a back-stitch, bring your needle out through the same hole as before, and make another back-stitch above it, so that you have, in what appears to be one stitch, two thicknesses of thread; then bring your needle out some distance in advance of the last stitch, and proceed as before.

Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery Mary Buckle 1877