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It’s a form of “insertion work.” Artistic knots and such to connect two panels. In this dress, it’s those lines down the front of the shirt and skirt. The name refers to the “bundles” you make of knotted thread.

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HorreC@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
see I knew it had to have the roots in that term (bundle of sticks) the image I saw didnt have the back up and over three stitches, I guess that is what makes it more embroidery then just a sewing stitch.

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- andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Yeah - and a whip stitch would be more for holding two pieces of fabric flat on top of each other + edging. This is more like you are connecting two panels with a kind of lace that you want to be fairly visible.
  
  The book’s author (this is Book of Colonial Needlwork by Elizabeth Musheno) points out that most American colonial women were kind making it up as they went along and got their decorative motifs from every day life - so it would make sense that they would think of bundles of firewood.
  
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  - HorreC@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    while its thru the fabric on the left and right do they also go thru it or is it just to wrap the middle? if the former then it would also look like a simple flower pattern (I would think).
    
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