1) Embroidery stitch 1) Sew 
Featherstitch or feather stitch and Cretan stitch or faggoting stitch are embroidery techniques made of open, looped stitches worked alternately to the right and left of a central rib. Fly stitch is categorized with the featherstitches. ==Applications== Cretan stitch is characteristic of embroidery of Crete and the surrounding regions. Open Cretan...
• (n.) A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.
Feath'er·stitch` noun A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.