Knotted stitch
A knotted stitch is any embroidery technique in which the yarn or thread is knotted around itself. Common knotted stitches include French knots and coral stitch.[1][2] Knotted stitches can be subdivided into individual or detached knots, continuous knotted stitches, and knotted edgings.

Contemporary design of French knots surrounded by chain stitch from a sampler in the form of a challah cover.

French knot
Applications
Individual knots are often found used as detached filling stitches.[2]
Knotted edgings are used as a decorative trims, and can also be used to fill open spaces in cutwork and in needlelace.
Detached knots
Individual knots include:[1][2]
- French knot
- Bullion knot
- Four-legged knot stitch
- Turk's head knot
Knot gallery
- French knots
- Bullion knot
- Bullion knots
- Four-legged knot stitch
- Turk's head knot
Continuous stitches
Knotted stitches include:[1][2][3]
- Ceylon stitch
- Coral stitch or coral knots
- Zig-zag coral stitch
- Double knot stitch
- Knotted cable chain stitch, a knotted variant of cable chain stitch
Stitch gallery
- Ceylon stitch
- Coral stitch
- Zig-zag coral stitch
- Double knot stitch
- Double knot variation
- Knotted cable chain stitch
See also
Notes
- Enthoven, Jacqueline: The Creative Stitches of Embroidery, Van Norstrand Rheinhold, 1964, ISBN 0-442-22318-8, p. 153-163
- Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Needlework. The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. (March 1992). ISBN 0-89577-059-8, p. 42-43
- Christie, Grace (Mrs. Archibald), Samplers and Stitches, a handbook of the embroiderer's art, London 1920
References
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- Caulfield, S.F.A., and B.C. Saward, The Dictionary of Needlework, 1885.
- Christie, Mrs. Archibald (Grace Christie), Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving, London, John Hogg, 1912, online at Project Gutenberg
- Christie, Mrs. Archibald (Grace Christie), Samplers and Stitches, a handbook of the embroiderer's art, London 1920
- Enthoven, Jacqueline: The Creative Stitches of Embroidery, Van Norstrand Rheinhold, 1964, ISBN 0-442-22318-8
- Reader's Digest, Complete Guide to Needlework. The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. (March 1992). ISBN 0-89577-059-8
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