darning
IPA: dˈɑrnɪŋ
noun
- A repair made by darning.
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Examples of "darning" in Sentences
- The former is called darning, the latter, patching.
- India, who does this artistic style of darning, is famed for skill.
- Another way of disposing of the undrawn threads is to cover them with a kind of darning stitch, as illustrated in fig. 117.
- "Ou, aye, my dear," said Elspeth, who was deeply engaged in darning a very large hole in one of my great-grandfather's socks.
- Certain sewing days in school, called darning days, are sacred to the renovation of worn-out garments which the girls bring from home.
- The girls, who were most of them busy with odd jobs such as darning, making out lists, rewriting work, writing letters home and so on, looked up as June strode into the room.
- One kind of darning is rather popular at the present moment, and examples of it may be familiar; it is a large, bold kind of work, often carried out with a coarse twisted silk.
- The fancy fillings such as darning, French knots, etc., are demonstrated and described in the following pages, and the colour plates endeavour to give the idea of the correct colourings.
- _ -- The letters and surrounding decoration shown in this example of cut or open work are built up on a square network of warp and weft threads that were left at regular intervals throughout the space, when the unnecessary threads were withdrawn, and then covered with a kind of darning stitch.
- Allied to these canvas stitches and having their origin in them, are the numerous forms of groundings, which are now worked on coarse linens, or in fact on any fabric; and have sometimes, although incorrectly, been called darning stitches, probably from their resemblance to the patterns which are found on samplers, for darning stockings, old table linen, &c. &c.
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