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ladder stitch

noun

  1. an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of ladder stitch1

First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences

Ladder-stitch occurs in the cusped shapes framing certain flowers in Illustration 72, embroidered all in blue silk on linen.

In order to make your ladder-stitch (G) square at the end, you begin by making a bar of the width the stitch is to be.

The embroidery is worked in button-hole stitch, overcast, satin, and ladder stitch.

A border in open ladder stitch is worked round them (see No. 81, Embroidery Instructions).

Any design that is uniformly narrow can be carried out in ladder-stitch.

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