Embroidery in which threads are fastened together in bundles:a black silk dress with tiers of faggoting...
Featherstitch or feather stitch and Cretan stitch or faggoting stitch are embroidery techniques made of open, looped stitches worked alternately to the right and left of a central rib.
Open Cretan stitch or faggoting is used in making open decorative seams and to attach insertions.