Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910, Buckle, Mary · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 144
vewhen quite naively and simply used in cross lineswhich do not appear to take any account of theforms crossed—as, for example, in Illustration 47,where the stitching does not pretend to expressmore than a flat surface. The floss, however, isthere carefully laid at a different angle of… … 48. INDO-PORTUGUESE LAID-WORK. n8 ART IN NEEDLEWORK. catch the laid tresses at intervals not too farapart. If the lines which sew down the floss havealso to express drawing, as in the case of the birdswings in Illustration 48, the underlying floss mustbe laid in lines which they will cross. In the…
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