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v. Present participle of hemstitch.

n. a stitch in which parallel threads are drawn and exposed threads are caught together in groups

"He had been finely striped from nape to knees with something like a coachwhip, the weals crisscrossing neatly like hemstitching."

hemstitched    hemstitches    hemstitching   

sew    stitch    run up    sew together    embroidery stitch   

hemstitched    hemstitching