2. Verb. (third-person singular of backstitch) ¹
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Definition of Backstitches
1. backstitch [v] - See also: backstitch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backstitches
Literary usage of Backstitches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. School Needlework. A Course of Study in Sewing Designed for Use in Schools by Olive C. Hapgood (1893)
"Holding the thread down with the left thumb, insert the needle under the
backstitches, and over the thread Fig. 49.—a, Showing the needle in position ; /< ..."
2. School Needlework: A Course of Study in Sewing Designed for Use in Schools by Olive C. Hapgood (1893)
"Holding the thread down with the left thumb, insert the needle under the
backstitches, and over the thread Fig. 49.—a needle in Showing the position ; b, ..."
3. Bulletin by Seventh-Day Adventists General Conference. Dept. of Education (1912)
"Then lay backstitches all around the bottom edge, making one stitch around each
strand of raffia. This will give the appearance of a buttonhole stitch at ..."
4. Shelter and Clothing: A Textbook of the Household Arts by Helen Kinne, Anna Maria Cooley (1913)
"The catch stitch is made of backstitches placed alternately above and below the
guide line. The spaces between stitches should be the same and the stitches ..."
5. Clothing for Women; Selection, Design, Construction: A Practical Manual for by Laura Irene Baldt (1916)
"... hold it tight and sew with fine backstitches from this one-quarter-inch point
around the end of the opening and one-quarter inch above the end; ..."
6. Dressmaking: A Manual for Schools and Colleges by Jane Fales (1917)
"... Dressmaking is then joined at this point to the third tuck by two backstitches.
The needle is put back through the material at this point, ..."
7. The Home Needle by Ella Rodman Church (1882)
"STITCHING, E.—This is composed of a row of backstitches without any interval
between them—the needle being at once inserted backward into the stitch just ..."
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