Structural Category	Crossed
Specific Usage	Surface
Other Names	Closed Herringbone; Crossed Back; Shadow

Face		Reverse

Comments

A double row of Back stitches is worked simultaneously along two lines. This makes a Closed Herringbone stitch on the reverse. On a sheer fabric the herringbone produces a shadow.

Diagrams

For diagrams, see Thomas, Mary. Mary Thomas's Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches (1989), p. 47.

Bibliographic Sources

Enthoven, Jacqueline. The Stitches of Creative Embroidery, pp. 81, 83.
Snook, Barbara. Needlework Stitches, p. 79.
Thomas, Mary. Mary Thomas's Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches (1989), p. 47.
Wilson, Erica. Erica Wilson’s Embroidery Book, p. 274.