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SPI

Embroidery

SPI

Abbreviation for Stitches Per Inch. A system for measuring density or the amount of satin stitches in an inch of embroidery. See also Stitch Density. Most of today’s embroidery machines measure needle movement in .1 mm increments. Therefore a thread space of 4 would be .4 mm in length.