In embroidery, couching and laid work are techniques in which yarn or other materials are laid across the surface of the ground fabric and fastened in place with small stitches of the same or a different yarn.[1]
The couching threads may be either the same color as the laid threads or a contrasting color. When couching threads contrast with laid threads, patterns may be worked in the couching stitches.[2]
- ^ Enthoven, Jacqueline (1964). The Creative Stitches of Embroidery. Van Norstrand Rheinhold. p. 165. ISBN 0-442-22318-8.
- ^ Wilson, Erica (1973). Erica Wilson's Embroidery Book. New York: Scribner. pp. 84–86.
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