hem-stitchv.
transitive. To hem with an ornamental stitch of a particular kind, giving the effect of a row of stitching (see quot. 1882); to ornament with this stitch.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > embroider or ornament with sewing > in other ways
couchc1405
clock1521
nerve1532
re-embroider1659
herringbone1787
hem-stitcha1839
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > sew > hem > in specific way
hem-stitcha1839
top-sew1876
a1839 C. L. H. Papendiek Court & Private Life Time Queen Charlotte (1887) I. i. 28 The tucks and hems being hem-stitched with Valenciennes lace.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xv. 228 A hemstitched pocket-handkerchief.
1874 Mrs. H. Wood Master of Greylands (new ed.) xvii. 196 Half-a-dozen handkerchiefs..that Mrs. Castlemaine had given to her to hem-stitch.
1874 Mrs. H. Wood Master of Greylands (new ed.) xxii. 254 Diligently pursuing the hem-stitching of the handkerchief.
1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 252/1 Hem-stitch. A term in needlework, designating the mode of producing a delicate kind of open-work, by drawing together certain threads in the material of the stuff, to be sewn in small successive clusters.
Derivatives
ˈhem-stitch n. ornamental needlework of this kind.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > stitch > other
chain-stitch1598
French knot1623
picot1623
petty-point1632
tent-stitch1639
brede-stitch1640
herringbone stitch1659
satin stitch1664
feather-stitch1835
Gobelin stitch1838
crowfoot1839
seedingc1840
German stitch1842
petit point1842
long stitch1849
looped stitch1851
hem-stitch1853
loop-stitch1853
faggot stitch1854
spider-wheel1868
dot stitch1869
picot stitch1869
slip-stitch1872
coral-stitch1873
stem stitch1873
rope stitch1875
Vienna cross stitch1876
witch stitch1876
pin stitch1878
seed stitch1879
cushion-stitch1880
Japanese stitch1880
darning-stitch1881
Kensington stitch1881
knot-stitch1881
bullion knot1882
cable pattern1882
Italian stitch1882
lattice-stitch1882
queen stitch1882
rice stitch1882
shadow-stitch1882
ship-ladder1882
spider-stitch1882
stem1882
Vandyke stitch1882
warp-stitch1882
wheel-stitch1882
basket-stitch1883
outline stitch1885
pointing1888
bullion stitchc1890
cable-stitchc1890
oriental stitchc1890
Turkish stitchc1890
Romanian stitch1894
shell-stitch1895
saddle stitch1899
magic stitch1900
plumage-stitch1900
saddle stitching1902
German knot stitch1903
trellis1912
padding stitch1913
straight stitch1918
Hungarian stitch1921
trellis stitch1921
lazy daisy1923
diamond stitchc1926
darning1930
faggot filling stitch1934
fly stitch1934
magic chain stitch1934
glove stitch1964
pad stitch1964
1853 E. B. Browning Let. Dec. in Pall Mall Gaz. (1892) 15 Aug. 2/3 You give the facts, as facts, without using them as the confirmatory hemstitch of a preconceived theory.
1874 Mrs. H. Wood Master of Greylands (new ed.) xix. 220 The work is really beautiful: it is the broad hem-stitch..four or five rows of it.
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