NOUN
- a looped stitch resembling the links of a chain; used in embroidery and in sewing
- the most basic of all crochet stitches made by pulling a loop of yarn through another loop
How To Use chain stitch In A Sentence
- Coggeshall and tamboured lace has cotton net mounted into a frame and is worked using a tambour hook to make a continuous chain stitch to outline the design and create the fillings.
- The name comes from the Persian word, suzan, or needle, and its predominant embroidery technique is chain stitch, done with an instrument called a tambour, which is a hooked needle something along the lines of a sharp crochet hook that pierces fabric and draws embroidery thread from behind through to the design side. A to Z: S is for Suzani
- Can you do chain stitch?
- The - chain stitch machine 173 is the machine for rational sewing of smooth seams in difficult - to - feed material.
- The loops which are made with a small hook, called a tambour needle, form a fine chain stitch and must be regular and even; to facilitate this a sort of thimble, fig. 842, is worn on the forefinger of the right hand, formed of a small plate of sheet brass, rolled up but not joined, so as to fit any finger; it is open at the top like a tailor's thimble and has a little notch on the side which is placed above the nail, and in which you lay the tambour needle whilst you work. Encyclopedia of Needlework
- The only adjustable tension for the chain stitch is the needle tension.
- Work a wheel in the centre of the rosette, which is ornamented with a circle of chain stitch, as can be seen in illustration; take up one thread of the wheel with every other chain stitch. Beeton's Book of Needlework
- For a stretchy chain stitch, use texturized nylon or polyester thread in the needle or looper.
