About the Herringbone Stitch Family
The Herringbone Stitch Family can be considered a cousin of the Cross-Stitch family. Like the Cross Stitches, the Herringbone Stitches are made by crisscrossing two diagonal stitches. The only difference is that they do not cross right in the middle, but somewhere like in the quarter lengths. Also, the technique differs. Yet, there might be some stitches that share both the families.
Herringbone Stitch Family
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Laced Herringbone
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Indian H’bone
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Closed H’bone
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Otomi
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Shadow Stitch
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Maltese Cross
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Double Maltese
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Interlaced Maltese
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Int’ced d’ble Maltese
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Persian Star
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Ermine
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Vertical H’bone
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Vandyke
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H’bone Ladder
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Half Herringbone
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Raised Herringbone
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Hi,
Can you help me identify the stitch used for the stem of the palmtree? Some mix of herringbone and coral but I can’t make it out..
Hi Lotta,
This is the Fishbone Stitch, a distant relative of the Herringbone family.
https://www.embroidery.rocksea.org/stitch/fishbone-stitch/fishbone-stitch/
I hope this helps.☺️
Hi Sarah, Thanks for your quick response. Are you referring to the leaves? I wonder abt the trunk, I find no stitch with the knot in the Fishbone library, most similar is the basket Stitch but the knots are missing.
Oh, I was talking about the leaves. The trunk looks like it has been done on zig zag coral stitch. So, instead of working in a linear manner, the stitch is bent after every knot.
I hope this works.
Closed herringbone doesn’t link to anything
Hi. Just updated. Thank you for letting me know. 🙂
thank u thank s a lot
Hai sarah i am not able to understand herringbone stitch
when my tutor taught.But when i search in net i came to
know about you.you have taught so simply and i finished my homework and i am going to submit it tomorrow.Thanks a lot sarah.
This is so great to hear, Priya. Sometimes, spending time looking at the process pictures helps a lot, the reason why picture tutorials are great! 🙂
First of all: I had this crazy idea of embroidering a huge summer scarf with butterlfys and flower etc. I hadn’t done any needlepoint since I was a child so your webside was and is still a huge help. It is the best out there, and believe me, I even crossed language barriers to look for detailed advice.
On one of the other side a found a Half Chevron stitch of the Herringbone Family which I do not find here. Maybe you could add it? Link: http://inaminuteago.com/stitchdict/stitch/chevron-half.html
As soon as I produce something really nice I am going to share here.
Thanks for all the help
Annie
Dear Annie,
It is indeed wonderful to know that you have found our pages helpful, making all our efforts worthwhile. Yes, please do share your work here.
I will try to add the half chevron stitch as soon as I get the chance. There might be a delay before I get back to addign more stitches as we had a baby 3 weeks back and she keeps us busy! 🙂