a stitch in which parallel threads are drawn and exposed threads are caught together in groups
source: WordNet 3.0
embroidery similar to drawnwork
source: WordNet 3.0
verb
sew with hemstitches
Hemstitch a sleeve.
source: WordNet 3.0
To ornament at the head of a broad hem by drawing out a few parallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief.
