Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910, Buckle, Mary · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 146
ves in the smaller sampleroverleaf. The stitching down makes usually a patternmore or less conspicuous. On this same samplerit does so very deliberately in the case of thebroad stalk. The rather sudden variation ofthe colour shown there in the leaves is harmlessenough in bold work, to which the… … 49 ITALIAN LAID-WORK 120 ART IN NEEDLEWORK wash of colour. The Italians of the 16th and17th centuries (see Illustration 49) were not afraidof rather abrupt transition in the shades of colourthey used for laid-work. When laid floss is kept in place by threadsthemselves sewn down across it, such…
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