Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An embroidery-stitch in which cross-bars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges Of raised work.
- noun A stitch by which a row of crosses is produced, the effect of the whole being a continuous line or ridge of the silk or thread, with short cross-bars at regular intervals projecting at both sides.
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Examples
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The difference between the working of the lattice-like band at H, and ladder-stitch G, is that, having completed your first triangle, you make, by buttonholing a stitch, a second triangle pointing the other way, which completes a rectangular shape.
Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery Mary Buckle 1877
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There is, however, a two-edged variety known as ladder-stitch, shown in the two horn shapes on the sampler, Illustration 22.
Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery Mary Buckle 1877
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In order to make your ladder-stitch (G) square at the end, you begin by making a bar of the width the stitch is to be.
Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery Mary Buckle 1877
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A place near our house had a sale on yarn, so I got some very bright, multi-colored ribbon yarn and knit a ladder-stitch scarf for Sluggo’s mom.
Rich Christmas 2005
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