Detached Buttonhole Stitch

Schematic drawing of the detached buttonhole stitch. Schematic drawing of the detached buttonhole stitch.

The detached buttonhole stitch is a filling stitch, which is used to make a raised area. It is created by first making two or more horizontal straight stitches on top of the area to be worked. Then a line of buttonhole stitches is made, being woven into the straight stitches, going from left to right, without entering the ground material.

Another line of buttonhole stitches, going from right to left, is then worked into the loops of the preceding line, etc. Only the buttonhole stitches along the edges are passed through the ground material.

The detached buttonhole stitch is also known as the detached buttonhole filling.

Source: EATON, Jan (1986). The Complete Stitch Encyclopedia, Twickenham: Hamlyn, pp. 89, 91.

Digital source of illustration (retrieved 28 January 2017).

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