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gros point

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ID 724465 Last modified 30.12.2004
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Domain folk arts & crafts
gros-point preferred
  • any of a variety of stitches employed in canvas embroidery
Good to know
  • FR: gros point [T60483] - le gros point est confectionné sur un canevas épais. L'aiguille tire deux ou plusieurs brins de fil ? la fois, ce qui facilite l'exécution de la pi?ce et demande moins de temps. Plusieurs tapis de m?me que les dessus de fauteuils, de chaises, de tabourets sont exécutés au gros point [GDT] DE: Gros-Point-Stickerei [T60483] FI: gros point koruompelus [T60483]
gros-point preferred
Usage examples
  • Petit point, Gros Point Petit point is a tent stitch (that is, a single diagonal stitch) worked over a single thread of canvas. 'Petit' is the French word for small. Gros point, as the name implies, is larger, and is tent stitch worked over a double thread of the canvas on the diagonal. It is common for printed canvases to be on Penelope canvas, which has dual threads running both vertically and horizontally. It takes four petit-point stitches to replace one gros-point stitch.
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  • embroidery

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