Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910, Buckle, Mary · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 142
case the direction of thethreads is here more than ever important. Thesewing down must take, lines and may formpatterns. The sampler, Illustration 46, wants little or noexplanation. It illustrates the various ways oflaying. In the leaf the floss is sewn down withsplit-stitch, which forms the… … 47- JAPANESE LAID-WORK. I 2 n6 ART IN NEEDLEWORK out of the straight by the couching in order togive a waved edge. The diaper which representsthe seeding of the flower is not, properly speaking,laid-work : single threads of white purse silk arethere couched down with dark. For the transverse…
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