chain stitch

noun

a kind of ornamental hand stitching in which each stitch forms a loop through the forward end of the next.
a basic crochet stitch in which yarn is pulled with the crochet hook through a loop on the hook to form a continuous strand of interlocking single loops.
a machine stitch forming a chain on the underside of the fabric.

chain stitch

First recorded in 1590–1600

Some of them make the lock stitch, others the double loop stitch, and still others the single chain stitch.

In 1830 a Frenchman, Barthlemy Thimmonier, constructed of wood eighty machines which made a chain stitch of great strength.

The chain stitch, besides being ornamental, makes one of the best darning stitches, reproducing the stitch in knitting.

The chain stitch when perfectly done should look like the stitch made by a single-thread machine.

If the hole is large, the net may be covered with the chain stitch, thus imitating the knitting stitch.

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