Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences, International Educational Publishing Company · Scranton, Pa. : Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts & Sciences · leaf 74
0 EMBROIDERY STITCHES §7 buttonhole-stitches, not unlike those used in Roman cut work, and then connecting these buttonhole-stitched lines with a series of cross-stitches at regular intervals, in ladder fashion. Uses. — ^To form attractive comers and in border work, especially if the designs are… … Fig. 25 Making the Stitch. — To make Venetian ladder work, run two rows of long, uneven basting-stitches exactly parallel with each other and I to f in. apart, thus outlining the ladder design that is to be worked. Over these threads work single-purl buttonhole-stitches, keeping the purls to the…
Embroidery · Needlework
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