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EMBROIDERY STITCHES NAMES 

1. Running 
2. Back 
3. Stem 
4. Chain 
5. Blanket 
6. Couching 
7. Cross 
8. Chevron 
9. Fly
10. Herringbone
11. Satin
12. Feather
13. Fishbone
14. Cretan
15. French knot
16. Palestrina
17. Weave
18. Straight
19. Cast-on (knit stitch)
20. Sheaf
21. Bullion knot
22. Coral
23. Seed 
24. Brick
25. Split
26. Y
27. Queen S
28. Long & shot
29. Roumanian 
30. St george cross
31. Letters
32. Monograms
33. Laced back
34. Whipped back
35. Pekinese
36. Open back
37. Herringbone ladder
38. Split back
39. Buttonhole stitch
40. Whipped buttonhole
41. Double blanket
42. Closed blanket
43. Crossed blanket
44. Blanket triangles
45. Buttonhole wheel
46. Buttonhole wheel cup
47. Rosette of thorns
48. Raised blanket stitch 
49. Buttonhole bar
50. Berwick stitch 
51. Barb stitch
52. Buttonhole filling
53. Detached buttonhole
54. Ceylon stitch
55. Mirrored blanket
56. Feathered buttonhole
57. German knotted
58. Knotted blanket
59. Antwerp stitch
60. Honeycomb stitch
61. Fishnet stitch 
62. Blanket scallop 
63. Shaped scallop
64. Buttonhole shading
65. Holy point stitch 
66. Merrow stitch 
67. Whipped chain
68. Double whipped chain
69. Partial whipped chain
70. Magic chain
71. Reverse chain
72. Lazy daisy
73. Long tailed daisy
74. Petal chain stitch 
75. Russian chain
76. Wheatear stitch 
77. Basque stitch 
78. Tulip stitch 
79. Detached wheatear
80. Bull's head stitch 
81. Oyster stitch 
82. Berry stitch 
83. Raised cup stitch 
84. Rope  stitch 
85. Narrow broad
86. Heavy chain stitch 
87. Braided chain
88. Open chain stitch 
89. Sinhalese chain
90. Double chain stitch 
91. Triple chain stitch 
92. Sailor stitch 
93. Crested chain
94. Checkered chain
95. Raised chain band
96. Interlaced chain
97. Laced chain stitch 
98. Overlayed laced chain
99. Butterfly chain
100. Twisted chain stitch 
101. Alt twisted chain
102. Zigzag twisted chain
103. Barred chain
104. Alt barred chain
105. Rosette stitch 
106. Back stitched chain
107. Tied chain stitch 
108. Feathered chain
109. Shell stitch 
110. Shell chain stitch 
111. Waved chain
112. Zigzag chain
113. Cable chain
114. Zigzag cable chain
115. Knotted chain
116. Knotted cable chain
117. Braid stitch
118. Threaded chevron
119. Detached chevron
120. Mirrored chevron
121. Double chevron
122. Chevron filling
123. Half chevron
124. Staggered chevron
125. Underside couching
126. Thorn stitch 
127. Pendant couching
128. Rumanian couching
129. Convent stitch 
130. Bokhara couching
131. Couched circle
132. Trellis couching
133. Lattice couching
134. Jacobean vouching
135. Twisted lattice 
136. Burden stitch 
137. Plaid filling stitch 
138. Torocko stitch 
139. Honeycomb filling
140. Battlement couching
141. Bayeux stitch 
142. Persian border
143. Tuft couching
144. Closed certan
145. Laced certan
146. Scottish cretan 
147. Looped certan
148. Knotted certan
149. Double certan
150. Plaited insertion
151. Crossed certan
152. French certan
153. Open certan
154. Double cross stitch 
155. Dutch cross
156. Padded cross 
157. Moss stitch 
158. Cord stitch 
159. Open fishbone
160. Sprat's head
161. Crow's foot
162. Raised fishbone 
163. Star stitch 
164. flat stitch 
165. Basket stitch 
166. Closed feather
167. Single feather 
168. Double feather
169. Straight sided feather
170. Crossed feather
171. Plaited feather
172. Maidenhair feather
173. Inverted feather
174. Bonnet stitch 
175. Whipped fly stitch 
176. Closed fly stitch 
177. Plaited fly stitch 
178. Twisted fly stitch 
179. Crossed fly stitch 
180. Wave stitch 
181. Crown stitch 
182. Reversed fly
183. Whipped reversed fly
184. Thread reversed fly
185. Anklet stitch 
186. Threaded herringbone 
187. Tacked herringbone 
188. Tied herringbone 
189. Laced herringbone 
190. Double herringbone 
191. Twisted lattice band
192. Interlaced herringbone 
193. Herringbone square 
194. Breton stitch 
195. Closed herringbone 
196. Plucked knot
197. Colonical knot
198. Peking knot
199. Pistill stitch 
200. Danish knot
201. Sword stitch 
202. Scroll stitch 
203. Knotted diamond 
204. Indian edging
205. Turkey rug knot
206. Four legged knot
207. Sorbello stitch 
208. Basque knot (type 1)
209. Basque knot (type 2)
210. Triple palestrina
211. Reversed palestrina 
212. Eastern (type 1)
213. Eastern (type 2)
214. Surrey stitch 
215. Looped running 
216. Laced running 
217. Interlaced running 
218. Whipped running 
219. Laced edging
220. Parelled running
221. Fairy lights
222. Meandering stitch 
223. Stepped running 
224. Gut rain coat 
225. Clown collar
226. Darning stitch
227. Holbein stitch
228. Japanese darning
229. Whipped satin
230. Leaf stitch
231. Padded satin
232. Encroaching satin
233. Surface satin (type-1)
234. Surface satin (type-2)
235. Looped stem
236. Whipped stem
237. Outline stitch
238. Pueblo stitch
239. Cable stitch
240. Lock stitch
241. Double lock stitch
242. Portuguese stem
243. Japanese stitch
244. Fern stitch
245. Alegerian eyelet
246. Diamond eyelet
247. Rhodes stitch
248. Ray stitch
249. Radiating stitch
250. Lantern stitch
251. Eyelet wheels
252. Arrowhead stitch
253. Threaded arrowhead
254. Eyelet stitch
255. Rice stitch (type-1)
256. Rice stitch (type-2)
257. Raised rice stitch
258. Speckling
259. Granitos stitch
260. Woven oval
261. Woven wheel
262. Whipped spider's
263. God's eye stitch
264. Weaving stitch
265. Woven trellis stitch
266. Woven bar
267. Stripped woven bar
268. Raised needle weave
269. Woven picot
270. Broad woven picot
271. Woven cross
272. Woven star
273. Portuguese border
274. Double cast-on 
275. Drizzle stitch
276. Chequered chain stitch
277. Hungarian braided chain stitch
278. Satin tied with back stitch
279. Spider web stitch
280. Back stitched spiderweb stitch
281. Raised spiderweb stitch
282. Ribbed spiderweb stitch
283. Vandyke stitch
284. Cloud filling stitch
285. Gobelin stitch
286. Tent stitch
287. Byzantine stitch
288. Chequer stitch
289. Norwich stitch
290. Waffle stitch
291. Ringed back stitch
292. Hem stitch
293. Double (or) Italian hem stitch
294. Interlaced hem stitch
295. Chessboard filling stitch
296. Casalguidi stitch
297. Woven filling stitch
298. Velvet tufling stitch
299. Rope stitch (broad)
300. Amarra stitch
301. Three sided stitch 

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