flame stitch

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   needlepoint embroidery stitch that produces zigzag lines

   Synonymsbargello

   Broadersewing stitch

Questions about flame stitch

What does flame stitch mean?

flame stitch means "needlepoint embroidery stitch that produces zigzag lines".

What is another word for flame stitch?

Close synonyms include bargello. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flame stitch a common word?

flame stitch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.