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ˈhem-stitch, v.
[f. hem n.1 + stitch v.]
trans. To hem with an ornamental stitch of a particular kind, giving the effect of a row of stitching (see quot. 1882); to ornament with this stitch.
1839C. L. H. Papendiek Crt. Q. Charlotte (1887) I. i. 28 The tucks and hems being hem-stitched with Valenciennes lace. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xv, A hemstitched pocket-handkerchief. 1874Mrs. H. Wood Mast. Greylands xvii. 196 Half-a-dozen handkerchiefs..that Mrs. Castlemaine had given to her to hem-stitch. Ibid. xxii. 254 Diligently pursuing the hem-stitching of the handkerchief. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework, Hem-stitch, a term in needlework, designating the mode of producing a delicate kind of open-work, by drawing together certain threads in the material of the stuff, to be sewn in small successive clusters.
Hence ˈhem-stitch n., ornamental needlework of this kind.
1853Mrs. Browning Let. Dec. in Pall Mall G. (1892) 15 Aug. 2/3 You give the facts, as facts, without using them as the confirmatory hemstitch of a preconceived theory. 1874Mrs. H. Wood Mast. Greylands xix. 220 The work is really beautiful: it is the broad hem-stitch..four or five rows of it. |