How to say "cross-stitch" in Japanese
Choosing the right word
- 千鳥掛けちどりがけnounCovers the sewing sense of 'cross-stitch': a hand stitch in which the thread forms a row of X shapes, used in dressmaking for hemming. It is not the word for the embroidery technique.
- nounThe loanword for cross-stitch as an embroidery technique, in which small X-shaped stitches are worked to build up a picture or pattern. Use this for the embroidery sense of the English word.
「クロスステッチ」 is the word for cross-stitch as an embroidery craft; 「千鳥掛け」 is a dressmaking term for the hand-sewn stitch worked in X shapes, so it fits sewing contexts rather than embroidery.
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