Bar tack explained
In sewing, bar tack, also written bar-tack or bartack, refers to a series of stitches used to reinforce areas of a garment that may be subject to stress or additional wear.[1] Typical areas for bar tack stitches include pocket openings, buttonholes, belt loops, the bottom of a fly opening,[2] tucks, pleats and the corners of collars.[3] Bar tacks may be sewn by hand, using whip stitches, or by machine, using zigzag stitches. The process for sewing a bar tack is essentially to sew several long, narrowly-spaced stitches along the line of the bar that will be formed, followed by short stitches made perpendicular to the long stitches, through the fabric and over the bar.[4] The bar commonly varies between NaNto in width and NaNto in length. In some garments, such as jeans, the bar tack will be sewn in a contrasting color.
Similar stitches to the bar tack include the arrowhead tack and crow's foot tack.[5]
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- Book: Geer. Sarah. Shirley. Lindsey. December 2011. Clothing and Textiles: Sewing Glossary. PDF. Utah State University Cooperative Extension. 25 January 2016. Utah State University Digital Commons.
- Book: St. Germaine. Tasia. The Sewtionary: An A to Z Guide to 101 Sewing Techniques and Definitions. 2014. KP Craft. Cincinnati, Ohio. 978-1-4402-3832-1. 16.
- Book: The Dressmaker. 1916. Butterick Publishing Company. New York. 22. 2nd. 25 January 2016. Internet Archive.
- Book: Brown. Clara M.. Gorham. Ethel R.. Keever. Aura I.. Clothing Construction. 1934. Athenaeum Press. Boston. 53–54. 2027/coo.31924003596800?urlappend=%3Bseq=73 . Revised. 26 January 2016. HathiTrust.
- Book: Rocke. Helen. Extension Circular EC55-405: Arrowhead and Bar Tack. PDF. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Digital Commons. University of Nebraska College of Agriculture Extension Service. 25 January 2016. 1955.
