Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| alencon | (Fr.) a needlepoint lace. |
| arpillera | (Spanish) a pictorial Peruvian wall decoration consisting of colourful threads and scraps stitched on to a sackcloth backing. |
| backstitch | a stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end; (verb) to stitch in this way. |
| bargello | (Ital.) a type of zigzag needlepoint stitch named for Bargello Museum. |
| broider | (Arch.) to embroider. |
| broiderer | (Arch.) one who embroiders. |
| broidery | (Arch.) embroidery. |
| chainstitch | a stitch in knitting or sewing resembling the links of a chain. |
| chainwork | work looped or linked like a chain. |
| coppin | a cop of thread. |
| cordonnet | a type of thread. |
| crewelist | one who embroiders with crewel. |
| crewellery | crewelwork. |
| crewelwork | embroidery done with crewel. |
| crochet | to do a type of needlework. |
| crocheter | one who crochets. |
| cutwork | openwork embroidery. |
| dentelle | (Fr.) lace, lacework. |
| drawnwork | ornamental needlework done by pulling out some of the threads of a fabric. |
| dressmake | to make dresses. |
| embroider | to ornament with designs in needlework. |
| embroiderer | one who embroiders. |
| embroidery | the art or process of forming decorative designs with hand or machine needlework. |
| fagoter | one who does fagoting, a kind of embroidery. |
| fancywork | ornamental needlework. |
| featherstitch | an embroidery stitch consisting of a line of diagonal blanket stitches worked alternately to the left and right; (verb) to stitc with featherstitch. |
| filagree | (Fr.) a kind of ornamental metallic lacework; (verb) to execute this lacework. |
| filature | (Fr.) the reeling of silk from cocoons; an establishment for this. |
| filigrain | (Fr.) a kind of ornamental metallic lacework. |
| filigrane | (Fr.) a kind of ornamental metallic lacework. |
| filigree | (Fr.) a kind of ornamental metallic lacework; (verb) to execute this. |
| fillagree | a kind of ornamental metallic lacework; (verb) to execute this lacework. |
| fillagreed | wrought in fillagree. |
| guipure | (Fr.) a kind of lace having no ground or mesh. |
| handsewn | sewn by hand. |
| hemmer | one who, or that which, hems with a needle. |
| hemstitch | a stitch used to hem a garment etc; (verb) to stitch using this stitch. |
| inlace | to work in, as lace; to embellish with work resembling lace. |
| knop | a loop or tuft in yarn. |
| knopped | having knops or knobs; fastened as with buttons. |
| lacet | a kind of braidwork. |
| lockstitch | a sewing-machine stitch formed by the locking of two threads together; (verb) to sew by lockstitch. |
| millefleur | (Fr.) having an all over pattern of small flowers and animals. |
| millefleurs | (Fr,) having an all over pattern of small flowers and animals. |
| needle | a slender, pointed instrument for sewing (verb) to irritate |
| needlecraft | the art of sewing. |
| needlepoint | to do a kind of embroidery. |
| needlework | work executed with a needle. |
| needleworker | one who practises needlework. |
| oop | to bind with thread, join. |
| openwork | any work showing openings through it, eg in embroidery. |
| oup | to bind with thread, join. |
| overcast | to sew stitches over a raw edge; to cover with stitches. |
| overcasting | stitches sewn over a raw edge. |
| overhand | to oversew. |
| overlock | to oversew a hem or fabric edge to prevent fraying. |
| overlocking | oversewing a hem or fabric edge to prevent fraying. |
| overplaid | a textile design consisting of a plaid pattern superimposed on another plaid. |
| overplaided | covered with a textile design consisting of a plaid pattern superimposed on another plaid. |
| oversew | to sew with short vertical stitches. |
| patchwork | needlework formed of patches or pieces sewed together; (verb) to sew patchwork. |
| pintuck | a very narrow fold of fabric; (verb) to tuck with a pintuck. |
| pintucking | the act of tucking with a pintuck. |
| pinwork | a type of embroidery. |
| pirn | (Scots) a reel, a bobbin. |
| plainwork | plain needlework, as distinct from embroidery. |
| pointelle | (Fr.) an openwork design, as in knitted fabric. |
| purfle | to ornament the edges of, esp with embroidery. |
| quatrefeuille | a four-petalled flower or leaf of four leaflets; an openwork design or ornament divided by cusps into four lobes. |
| quatrefoil | a four-petalled flower or leaf of four leaflets; an openwork design or ornament divided by cusps into four lobes. |
| reembroider | to outline a design, as on lace, with embroidery stitching. |
| rehem | to hem again. |
| reseau | (Fr.) a fine-meshed ground for lacework. |
| resew | to sew again. |
| restitch | to stitch again. |
| reticella | an early form of needlepoint lace produced in Italy. |
| rickrack | a decorative braid in even zigzag form. |
| samplery | sampler-work. |
| seamstress | a woman whose occupation is sewing. |
| seamstressy | (Sterne) sewing, needlework. |
| sempstress | a seamstress. |
| sempstressing | sewing. |
| serger | a sewing machine attachment for finishing seams. |
| sew | to work on with a needle and thread. |
| sewability | the ability to be sewed. |
| sewable | that can be sewn. |
| sewn | (PaP.) SEW, to work on with a needle and thread. |
| spiderwork | lace worked by spider-stitch. |
| sprang | a weaving technique to form an openwork mesh. |
| sprig | a shoot, twig, or spray of a plant, shrub, or tree (verb) to embroider with representations of twigs |
| steek | (Scots) to stitch. |
| stitch | a complete movement of the needle in sewing, knitting, surgery, etc; (verb) to join by making in-and-out movements with a threaded needle. |
| stitchcraft | the art of sewing. |
| stitcher | one who stitches. |
| stitchery | needlework. |
| stitchwork | embroidery. |
| stumpwork | a type of embroidery featuring raised figures, padded with cotton, wool or hair. |
| sutile | done by stitching. |
| tambourer | one who embroiders on a tambour. |
| tapet | (Spenser) a piece of tapestry; (verb) to decorate with tapestries. |
| tat | odds and ends of little real value (verb) to touch up |
| tatt | to make (anything) by tatting; to work at tatting. |
| topstitch | to make a line of stitches on the outside of a garment close to a seam. |
| trapunto | (Ital.) a decorative quilted design. |
| unhemmed | not hemmed. |
| unsew | to undo, as something sewn; to take out the stitches of. |
| unstitch | to remove the stitches from. |
| untailored | not tailored. |
| whipstitch | a small overcasting stitch; (verb) to sew with a whipstitch. |
| wholestitch | weaving stitch that fills in a pattern. |
| woolwork | needlework done in wool. |
| zari | (Urdu) a type of thread made of fine gold or silver wire used in traditional Indian and Pakistani garments. |