bread-stitch

bread-stitch

1. Alternative form of brede-stitch
   • 1675, Hannah Wolley, The Queen-like Closet, page 83:

     Form it all with a double Back-stitch, and on the one side of the Stalks work a broad Gold-stitch, and bring it off by degrees with powdering, first pretty big stitches, and so smaller and smaller; work the veins of the leaves with Bread-stitch, Chain-stitch, open Chain-stitch, and any other that you can think on, or devise; then sprig them thick with several Fancies, and let the folds of your Leaves be the thinnest work, and be sure you put a shadow under every fold.

   • 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield:

     They can read, write, and cast accounts; they understand their needle, bread-stitch, cross and change, and all manner of plain work; they can pink, point, and frill, and know something of music; they can do up smallclothes; work upon catgut; my eldest can cut paper, and my youngest has a very pretty manner of telling fortunes upon the cards.