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Chain stitch
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In sewing and embroidery, a chain stitch is a series of looped stitches that form a chain. It can be used decoratively or constructively.
Chain stitches are also used in making tambour lace, needlelace, macramé and crochet.
Common variants on the chain stitch include:
- Back-stitched chain stitch
- Knotted chain stitch
- Open chain stitch
- Twisted chain stitch
- Zig-zag chain stitch
Chain stitch was the default stitch used by early sewing machines; however, as it is easily unraveled from fabric, this was soon replaced with the more secure lockstitch.
Chain stitch is also a technique used to shorten rope or cable for storage or while in use; see Daisy chain (knot).
Chained stitches from Samplers and Stitches, a handbook of the embroiderer's art by Mrs Archibald Christie, 1920.
- Virginia Churchill Bath, Needlework in America, Viking Press, 1979 ISBN 0-670-50575-7
- S.F.A. Caulfield and B.C. Saward, The Dictionary of Needlework, 1885.
- Mrs. Archibald Christie. Samplers and Stitches, a handbook of the embroiderer's art, London 1920, 1989 facsimile: Batsford, ISBN 0-7134-4796-6.