tailor's tack

1. 1.

   a loose, looped, sewing stitch used to transfer marking for darts, etc., from a pattern to material

   Broadersewing stitch

Questions about tailor's tack

What does tailor's tack mean?

tailor's tack means "a loose, looped, sewing stitch used to transfer marking for darts, etc., from a pattern to material".

Is tailor's tack a common word?

tailor's tack 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.