A chop is a way of signing or sealing your creations - very definitely your own design. Wikipedia says "A
seal, in an
East Asian context, is a general name for printing
stamps and impressions thereof which are used in lieu of
signatures in personal documents, office paperwork, contracts, art, or any item requiring acknowledgment or authorship...The colloquial name
chop, when referring to these kinds of seals, was adapted from the
Hindi word
chapa and from the
Malay word
cap[SUP]
[2][/SUP] meaning stamp or
rubber stamps." Although mine is in threads on a piece of fabric. Lesson for today.