Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An embroidery-stitch by which the surface is covered with long parallel stitches side by side and regular in their arrangement, so as to produce a glossy satin-like surface.
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Examples
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Imagine this kind of coloring on that skirt, done in satin-stitch embroidery, or, better yet, bugle beads!
the flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la - A Dress A Day 2007
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Imagine this kind of coloring on that skirt, done in satin-stitch embroidery, or, better yet, bugle beads!
June 2007 2007
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We have seen a muslin scarf embroidered by her in satin-stitch, and have held in our hands a tiny housewife of fairy-like proportions, which Jane worked at the age of sixteen as a gift for a friend.
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Instance B, however, is worked in the hand, and D in a frame -- from which very fact it follows that the worker is naturally disposed to regard B as akin to crewel-stitch and D to satin-stitch, between which two stitches "dovetail" may be regarded as the connecting link.
Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery Mary Buckle 1877
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The value of a couched cord as an outline to stitching (satin-stitch in this instance) is shown in Illustration 91, in which the singularly well-schemed and well-drawn lines of the ornament are given with faultless precision.
Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery Mary Buckle 1877
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Incidentally it shows various ways of breaking up a surface in satin-stitch.
Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery Mary Buckle 1877
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The worker adapts, as a matter of course, the length of the stitch to the work to be done, directing it also according to the form to be expressed, and so arrives, almost before he is aware of it, by way of satin-stitch, at what is called plumage-stitch.
Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery Mary Buckle 1877
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It is not difficult, for example, to imagine a classification according to which the satin-stitch in Illustration 71 would figure as a canvas stitch.
Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery Mary Buckle 1877
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SURFACE SATIN-STITCH (not the same on both sides), though it looks very much like ordinary satin-stitch, is worked in another way.
Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery Mary Buckle 1877
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The necessity for something like what is called "LAID-WORK" is best shown by reference to satin-stitch.
Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery Mary Buckle 1877
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