Embroidery stitch

Bangladesh's Nakshi Kantha embroidery.
An illustration of the buttonhole stitch.

In everyday language, a stitch in the context of embroidery or hand-sewing is defined as the movement of the embroidery needle from the back of the fibre to the front side and back to the back side.[1] The thread stroke on the front side produced by this is also called stitch. In the context of embroidery, an embroidery stitch means one or more stitches that are always executed in the same way, forming a figure.[2] Embroidery stitches are also called stitches for short.

Embroidery stitches are the smallest units in embroidery. Embroidery patterns are formed by doing many embroidery stitches, either all the same or different ones, either following a counting chart on paper, following a design painted on the fabric or even working freehand.

  1. ^ Koll, Juby Aleyas (2019). Sarah's Hand Embroidery Tutorials—Hand Embroidery Stitches for Everyone. Roxy Mathew Koll and Juby Aleyas Koll. ISBN 978-93-5361-592-5.
  2. ^ Haynes, Christine (2015). How to Speak Fluent Sewing. Concord, CA: C&T Publishing. p. 178. ISBN 978-1-61745-073-0.