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The St George's cross stitch is a normal cross stitch, but placed on one leg, creating a 'plus' sign. See also the star filling stitch.

See rice stitch.

A ralli is an appliqué quilt traditionally made in southern Pakistan and beyond. They were originally made of pieces of material cut to the size and pieced and sewn together by hand. The resulting cloth is decorated with dense stitching, appliqué and cotton tufts. The word is derive dfrom the local ralanna, which means 'to mix' or 'to connect'.

The raised chevron stitch is a composite stitch, created by first making a line of diagonal stitches in V-shapes. Subsequently a line of chevron stitches is threaded across the line of diagonal stitches, without entering the ground material, apart from the end and beginning of the line.

The prick stitch is a back stitch that is used for very delicate fabrics. The stitches are very small on the obverse of the fabric, and spaced within a short distance of each other.

The Portuguese knotted stem stitch is a whipped stitch, which is created by working a stem stitch the thread twice. and then bringing up the needle at the centre, to one side, and whipping the thread twice. After the second stem stitch has been made, both stem stitches are whipped twice. After the third stem stitch has been made, the second and third stem stitch are whipped twice, etc.

See the Smyrna stitch.

The Smyrna stitch is often used in Italian embroidery. It is a knotted stitch and correspondingly creates a knotted line, generally created for outlines. The Smyrna stitch is also known as the double knot stitch, old English knot stitch, Palestrina stitch or the tied knot stitch.

See Jacobean couching.