Tête de Boeuf Stitch

Two variations: the first (sometimes called Detached Wheatear Stitch) looks more like a bull's head and is worked with a loose horizontal stitch that is held down in the middle with a Detached Chain Stitch; the second consists of a Detached Chain Stitch and two angled Straight Stitches on either side.

A-Z of Embroidery Stitches, p 131 [Bull's Head Stitch, Tête de Boeuf Stitch*] Elegant Stitches, p 93 [Tete de Boeuf Stitch, Head of the Bull Stitch*] Mary Thomas's Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches, p 198 [Tête-de-Boeuf Filling Stitch] The Stitches of Creative Embroidery, p 131 [Tête de Boeuf Stitch]