Also known as double hem stitch, Roumanian hem stitch, double-rowed open-work.
Source: THOMAS, Mary (1934). Mary Thomas's Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches, esp. pp. 113-114.
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Italian hem stitch
Schematic drawing of an Italian hem stitch.
THOMAS, Mary (1934). Mary Thomas's Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches, 1934, p. 113.
The Italian hem stitch is a type of hem stitch. While the normal hem stitch is worked with one line of drawn horizontal threads and a series of stitches that combine clusters of verical threads. The Italian hem stitch has another line of drawn horziontal threads, whereby the thread combines the cluster of vertical threads in the first line and another cluster with the same vertical threads in the second line.
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