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Examples of Sewing Stitches

I’m hoping to produce a “book” that illustrates how common sewing stitches, particularly machine stitches, are formed.

There will be one leaf for each stitch. Each leaf will be made of fabric and have descriptive text printed on it. The leaf will have a row of holes punched about a half inch from the edge. Paracord will pass through these holes to illustrate each stitch.

Over the course of this project I’ve found some valuable web references.

The Groz-Beckert YouTube channel has slow motion animations for some stitches:

ISO 4915_1991 provides descriptions of these and many other stitches, but is unfortunately trapped behind a pay wall.

This page also provides good descriptions and drawings for a number of stitches.

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