NOUN
- a stitch in which parallel threads are drawn and exposed threads are caught together in groups
How To Use hemstitching In A Sentence
- He had been finely striped from nape to knees with something like a coachwhip, the weals crisscrossing neatly like hemstitching. Sick Cycle Carousel
- Sharp's use of testimony attesting that library science be distinguished from hemstitching helps us understand attitudes about women's work in the nineteenth century.
- Trade Work: Ribbon run on webbing for suspenders, infants 'dresses -- eight different styles, children's aprons -- two different styles, hemstitching and embroidery for yokes, ruffling -- hem and hemstitched, faggoting. The Making of a Trade School
- It's as if 100 years later the profession had finally the opportunity to wrestle itself away from its association with ‘hemstitching’ work that isn't skillful, just plain old women's work.
