stitchcraft

noun

stitchcraft

noun

Etymology From stitch + -craft.

1

The craft of stitching.

Fine embroidery, especially gold threadwork, was of course a specialised skill, done for rich patrons, not the stitchcraft of hovels.1996, Helen M. Jewell, Women in Medieval England, page 35:

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