I used a glover's needle and some brown waxed thread, but an embroidery needle and dental floss would have done all right too--except for the color of the dental floss.
For these kinds of bringing-the-edges-back-together repairs, I prefer to use what I call a "Frankenstein stitch". My needlework reference book (a reprint of de Dillmont's very thorough volume) calls it an "antique seam". There's a slightly darkened version of the illustration here; it is one of the lesser examples of the hundreds and hundreds of beautifully-done engravings in the book.
Anyway, the way the stitch is made is to always bring the needle up through the material, first on one side, then the other, and repeat.
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