Detail of Backstitch | stem stitching and laid work.

Backstitch or back stitch and its variants stem stitch, outline stitch and split stitch are a class of embroidery and sewing stitches in which individual stitches are made backward to the general direction of sewing.

Backstitch is most easily worked on an even-weave fabric, where the threads can be counted to ensure regularity, and is generally executed from right to left.

There a dozen giant monitors played their seventy-five-foot jets of water against the huge seam of tertiary gravel which was the mountainside.

I think you could have heard him a mile away, and he was bursting at every seam with importance.

reinforce seam with a coil of clay.

Place sleeve seam at center underarm and center of sleeve cap at shoulder seam.

Straight vertical edges, such as those at the back seam of a sock, can be woven together invisibly.

The osteiod seam is a narrow region of newly formed organic matrix, not yet mineralized, located on the surface of a bone.

This engine can also be built with no riveted seam.

The armpit cannot have a seam, which would line up with the jacket seam and provide a weak spot.

This area is called the giornata (" day's work "), and the different day stages can usually be seen in a large fresco, by a sort of seam that separates one from the next.

Most bodies are made of two pieces of wood with some of them including a seam running down the center line of the body.

As one modern scholar observed: " It is as if an artisan with his big, awkward fingers were patiently, fascinatedly, imitating the fine seam of the professional tailor.

Before the steam engine, pits were often shallow bell pits following a seam of coal along the surface, which were abandoned as the coal was extracted.

To grip the ball for a leg-spinning delivery, the ball is placed into the palm with the seam parallel to the palm.

The first bend of the third finger should grasp the seam.

One may also remove less " lower information " parts of an image, such as by seam carving.

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an orebody, lode, vein, ( coal ) seam or reef, which forms the mineralized horizon and package of economic interest to the miner.

A greenish liquid containing gold-coated nanoshells is dribbled along the seam.

An infrared laser is traced along the seam, causing the two sides to weld together.

Many medieval shoes were made using the turnshoe method of construction, in which the upper was turned flesh side out, and was lasted onto the sole and joined to the edge by a seam.

The seam between the two splits is intended to be invisible, making the duplication seem realistic.

In 483 BC, a massive new seam of silver was found in the Athenian mines at Laurium.

From the middle of the 2nd millennium BC most of the gold wires in jewellery are characterised by seam lines that follow a spiral path along the wire.