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🤕 A raised mark 🛋️ A fabric strip 🪡 Sewing a strip
welting

welting

7.7
Sewing a strip of material into an edge to finish it
  • noun
  • /ˈwɛltɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : cosido
  • The welting on the cushion gives it a polished and finished look.

Examples

  • Perry showed me the different types of leather he used for the different parts of the shoe, his tools, and that crucial welting stitch (which attaches the insole and outsole) that so troubled his rotator cuff and assured my comfort.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • He expertly crafted the shoe, ensuring that the welting was secure and neat.

  • When sewing the jacket, she added welting along the seams for added durability.

Synonyms

sewing
vswelting
77 1.0

Joining cloth or other material with stitches made by a needle and thread

is a specific method that attaches a narrow strip to an item's edge

How Decorative

piping
  • Specialized
5 5.5
welting
  • Specialized
7.7
binding
17 3.9
stitching
23 2.3
tacking
  • Specialized
7.0

Surface Forms

welting singular
weltings plural

Morphology

welting = welt (transparent) = welt + ing

This sense is the gerund/nominalization of the verb 'welt' and describes the process; formation is regular and transparent.

Etymology

Welting in making things names the action of adding a welt, a 'strip' of material sewn into an edge to make it stronger or look neater, so to welt a shoe or cushion is to sew that raised strip along the edge.