Sewing/stitching and seams/stitches

BUR #19761 has been rejected.

create alias stitching -> suturing
create alias sewing_(wound) -> suturing
create alias sewing -> sewing_(craft)
deprecate seams

Current tagging and wikis of sewing and stitching make little distinction of the 2 acts. Consequently, both tags have works depicting sewing of cloth and sewing of flesh. Since these two refer to 2 distinct applications of sewing in very different contexts, they should be kept separate (ie. post #5941034 and post #4973858 shouldn't be under the same tag imo)

Stitching should be clarified as suturing and get an updated wiki, ensuring it refers to "sewing of flesh" unambiguously. sewing_(wound) should be added as a utility alias, since suturing is kind of an obscure word.

sewing should be clarified as sewing_(craft) so that refers to sewing of cloth unambiguously.

These two tags should then be gardened.

stitches currently includes both "sewn flesh" and "sewn fabric," even though the latter belongs more under something like seams. It currently refers both to sewn marks/visible stitching on fabric and the line where 2 pieces of metal/plastic join. These should be into new tags, something like seam_(fabric) and seam_(mechanical) (again distinct).

My thoughts:

stitching is ambiguous; it's a verb and a noun, and it could refer to either sewing or suturing. It should be deprecated rather than aliased to something.

sewing is fine as it is. It doesn't need to be changed.

A suturing tag is a good idea. We shouldn't lump sewing and stitching up flesh into the same tag.

I agree seams should be deprecated. Almost every piece of clothing has seams.

I would change the BUR to be as follows:

deprecate stitching
deprecate seams
create alias sewing_(wound) -> suturing

AngryZapdos said:

I agree seams should be deprecated. Almost every piece of clothing has seams.

I think that there should still be a tag for visible decorative stitching in clothes (also the reason I noticed the stitching tag) since a purely functional seams/hems would not have such visible thread and the artist specifically drew those details in ex. post #6231381 on apron, post #6700051 on leftmost jacket, post #5383414, post #4932867, post #4311685.

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