WordNet
n. a small diagonal needlepoint stitch [syn: tent stitch]
needlepoint done with small stitches
Usage examples of "petit point".
My eyes are too old for embroidery or even petit point, but gros point I can do.
Irma Bunt back to her petit point, Blofeld back to his stance by the mantelpiece, his hand resting lightly on the boss of his great sword.
And beside him, completing the picture of a homely couple at ease after dinner, sat Irma Bunt, in the full regalia of a high-class Japanese lady, the petit point of a single chrysanthemum lying in her lap waiting for those pudgy hands to take it up when the cause of this unseemly disturbance had been ascertained.
This plays out in the spectacle of antique petit point chairs with heavy carved legs next to velvet Elvis paintings.
Tasteful, she decided, choosing a high-backed chair with a petit point seat.