french knot

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   a stitch made by looping the thread several times around the needle before inserting it into the fabric

   Broadersewing stitch

Questions about french knot

What does french knot mean?

french knot means "a stitch made by looping the thread several times around the needle before inserting it into the fabric".

Is french knot a common word?

french knot 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.