The American domestic cyclopædia, a volume of universal ready reference for American women in American homes (1890)
Lupton, F. M. (Frank M.), 1854-1910 · New York · leaf 97
filled in, and thestems worked in a close herring-boue stitch to give them strength and sub-stance. Sometimes the whole design would be worked in this stitch, doneso closely as to have tlie appearance of braid. Some ol this tilled-in work was done in a peculiar manner from side toside. An oval leaf… … Fig. 27. one-third of the width of the leaf is taken up in the needle, and the nextstitch is done in the same way on the opposite side of the leaf—workingfrom side to side until the leaf becomes too narrow again, when it is finish-ed with a few satin stitches. This stitch throws all the silk to the…
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