featherstitch

a curved feather stitch

Meanings

Noun

  • A kind of embroidery stitch made of open, looped stitches worked alternately to the right and left of a central rib.

Verb

  • To make stitches of this kind.

Origin

  • feather + stitch

Modern English dictionary

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