Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910, Buckle, Mary · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 210
hecontrast between satin-stitch in the bird andcouched cord for the clouding is most judicious,as is the knotting of the birds crest. Laid flosscontrasts, again, admirably with couched gold inIllustrations 47, 48, 49, and satin-stitch with couch-ing in Illustration 91, where the gold is… … 184 ART IN NEEDLEWORK. work and couching or chain-stitch outline has beenalluded to already. A danger to be kept in view when working inone stitch only is, lest it should look like a woventextile, as it might if very evenly worked. Somekinds of embroidery seem hardly worth doingnowadays, because…
Embroidery
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