Darned huckaback was used to decorate household textiles, such as towels. The type of stitch used for this type of work is a running stitch, which in this context is also sometimes called a darning stitch or a surface stitch. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries it is often made using a darning stitch with a mercerised cotton of some form on a tabby weave ground material, rather than huckaback cloth.
Also called: huck embroidery; huckaback embroidery; huckaback needlework; popcorn embroidery
Sources:
- BURNHAM, Dorothy (1980). Warp and Weft: Textile Terminology, Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, p. 72.
- Shorter Oxford English Dictionary: 'Huck' and 'Huckaback'.
- http://www.victorian-embroidery-and-crafts.com/fabrics.html (retrieved 7th May 2017).
Digital source of illustration (retrieved 7th May 2017).
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