Whipped Spider Wheel


Whipped Spider’s Wheel is also known as

Whipped wheel, Ribbed spider wheel, Raised spider’s web wheel, Back stitched spider’s web [EN], Punto de telara­ña [ES], Point d’araignée [FR], Gerippter spinnennetzstich [DE], Ragnatela con sopraggitto [IT], Ponto de teia [PT], Spindelvävssöm [SV].


How to do the Whipped Spider’s Wheel

This stitch will, definitely, remind you of a spider’s web. It has a raised effect and can be used as a very decorative piece in your embroidery. This stitch can be worked on any number of straight stitches, that is, even or uneven. While going around the Straight Stitches, each stitch is whipped, which in turn gives a final raised or ribbed effect. I will work between five straight stitches with a common central point. You can also leave a gap in the center to bring a different effect.

Fig 1: First, make Straight Stitches with a common center as shown.
Bring out the needle through the center and go under the first straight stitch.
Note that if you are leaving a gap in the center, you need to bring the needle out from the inner point of one of the straight stitches.
Fig 2: Now, whip around the straight stitch, as shown. Do not pluck the fabric underneath. Move to the next straight stitch and whip around it.
Fig 3: Continue this process by going around, each time, whipping the straight stitch before moving to the next.Fig 4: A completed Whipped Spider’s Wheel would look like this.

Learn to do the Whipped Spider’s Wheel Stitch in 2 minutes!


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Other stitches from the Weave Stitch Family

Stripped Woven Band

Raised Needle Wea

Broad Woven Picot

Portuguese Border

12 Responses

  1. g
    gomathy says:

    Hi Sarah
    Your website is useful for me bcz I got the job to teach hand embroidery. Pls upload kutch and kasuthi eembroidery
    Thank you

  2. s
    sue says:

    Clever clever! Thank you !
    Thank God for giving you creative juices

  3. d
    deepti says:

    hai sara!!

    really very useful information , it is very useful one

  4. s
    shanthi says:

    The information is too good. Very easy to understand. Do you have tutorials to learn ari work and zardosi in the same . Thank you

  5. M
    Mini says:

    Hi Sarah,

    Nice stitch… will be good on salwars…

    I think, based on the number of legs added, different shapes can be created….

    • sarah says:

      Dear Mini,
      You can always try different number of legs to create different effects… you can also try experimenting with legs in semi circles or quarter circles, for instance. Yes, try it on salwar and let me know how it turned out to be. 🙂

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