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Updated: May 4, 2025
There is no end to such possible INTERLACINGS. Those on the sampler do not need much explanation; but it may be as well to say that A starts with crewel-stitching; B and C with back-stitching; D with chain-stitching; E with darning or running; F, G, and H with varieties of herring-bone-stitch; J with Oriental-stitch; and K with feather-stitch.
Feather-stitch is not adapted to covering broad surfaces solidly, but may be used for narrow ones. ORIENTAL-STITCH is the name given to a close kind of feather-stitch much used in Eastern work.
Stitch E differs from D in that the side strokes slant both in the same direction. It is worked from right to left instead of from left to right. Stitch F is a combination of buttonhole and Oriental stitches. The stitch employed for the central stalk, G, has really no business on this sampler, except that it has something of the appearance of a continuous Oriental-stitch.
The difference at once apparent to the eye between the two is that, whereas for the mid-rib of a band or leaf of feather-stitching you have cross lines, in Oriental-stitch you have a straight line longer or shorter as the case may be. Oriental-stitch, sometimes called "Antique-stitch," is a stitch in three strokes, just as feather-stitch is a stitch in four.
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