Arts and crafts essays . Fig. 2.—Chain Stitch. (d) Varieties of stitches may be classi-fied under two sections : one of stitchesin which the thread is looped, as inchain stitch, knotted stitches, and button-392 hole stitch; the other of stitches in Stitches andwhich the thread is not looped, but lies Mechamsm-flatly, as in short and long stitches—crewel or feather stitches as they aresometimes called,—darning stitches, tentand cross stitches, and satin Fig. 3.—Satin Stitch. Almost all of these stitches producedifferent sorts of surface or texture inthe embroidery done with them. Chain


Arts and crafts essays . Fig. 2.—Chain Stitch. (d) Varieties of stitches may be classi-fied under two sections : one of stitchesin which the thread is looped, as inchain stitch, knotted stitches, and button-392 hole stitch; the other of stitches in Stitches andwhich the thread is not looped, but lies Mechamsm-flatly, as in short and long stitches—crewel or feather stitches as they aresometimes called,—darning stitches, tentand cross stitches, and satin Fig. 3.—Satin Stitch. Almost all of these stitches producedifferent sorts of surface or texture inthe embroidery done with them. Chainstitches, for instance, give a broken orgranular - looking surface (Fig. 2).This effect in surface is more strongly 393 Stitches and marked when knotted stitches are used. Mechanism. gatjn stitcnes give a flat surface (), and are generally used for em-broidery or details which are to be of an


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