An embellished seaming used in joining costly fabrics; an ornamental strip of material inserted in or laid over a seam; also, material for this…

(in sailmaking) a seam used to join pieces of canvas, made by laying the edges together without overlapping; cf. flat seam n. at flat, adj. adv.n.3…

The action of fell, v., in various senses. Needlework. A hem which has been folded over, turned under, and sewn down so that the seam lies flat…

(a) adj.(attributive) designating a kind of seam made by running a row of stitches and then felling one of the projecting edges (see fell, v. 7); (b)…

a seam made by sewing two pieces of fabric with their right sides together, then turning and stitching them again on the wrong side so that the…

Dressmaking. A seam joining the two edges left by cutting a gore in any stuff.

A seam in which raw edges are joined together on the outside of the work, using an oversewing stitch. Cf. oversew, v.

French seam (Needlework), a double-stitched seam that is folded and sewn to resemble a plain seam on the right side.

a clothing seam reinforced underneath; also, = channel seam n. at channel, n.1 compounds 2.

Fabric which is used to bind and finish the edges of a jetted pocket; a strip of this fabric. Cf. jetted, adj.2

a type of decorative seam made by joining two parts of the same fabric with another strip of (contrasting) fabric underneath to form a channel.

(see quot. 1964).

(the use of) channel seams.