🧵 A flat braid 💍 Decorative technique

soutache

9.9

A way of sewing braid around beads to make jewelry or decorative items

noun

Specialized

: soutache

She designs soutache necklaces by sewing colourful braids around beads to create floral motifs.

Examples

At the craft fair, visitors admired the delicate soutache earrings made from silk braid and seed beads.
She taught a weekend workshop on soutache techniques, focusing on bead placement and braid stitching.
She loves to create beautiful soutache designs.
The soutache on this necklace is stunning!
She designs soutache necklaces by sewing colorful braids around beads to create floral motifs.
At the craft fair, visitors admired the delicate soutache earrings made from silk braid and seed beads.
During the workshop, participants learned about soutache techniques, which involve sewing braids to embellish various accessories.

Synonyms

braiding

vssoutache

4 3.9

A decorative strip made by weaving threads to decorate clothes, curtains, or furniture

uses that trimming sewn around beads to form shaped decorative motifs

lace making

vssoutache

4.4

A craft that forms delicate open patterns from thread by hand

uses braid and sewing to build motifs rather than making open netlike fabric

drawnwork

vssoutache

Specialized

9.9

Decorative sewing where threads are pulled out of the cloth to make lace patterns

uses sewing of braid to form shapes rather than removing threads to make open patterns

How Intricate

filigree

6 9.8

soutache

Specialized

9.9

embroidery

20 4.7

beadwork

2 3.9

stitching

23 2.3

Surface Forms

soutache singular

soutaches plural

Etymology

Soutache comes from the same French word for the braid and also describes the craft of sewing that braid around beads to form shapes; imagine a little 'cord' stitched in curves to make flowers or patterns. That's why soutache can mean both the technique and the small pieces of jewellery or embroidery made with it.