Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910, Buckle, Mary · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 218
he roundness of the face(Illustration 87). But just as there is a systemof shading according to which the draughtsmanmakes all his strokes in one direction (slantingusually), so the embroidress may, if she prefer,take her stitches all one way ; and in the 15thand 16th centuries the fashion was to… … 75- SHADING IN CHAIN-STITCH. 192 ART IN NEEDLEWORK. us much. The stitches are in the first placeonly satin-stitches worked not in even rows, asin Illustration 40, but so that there is no lineof demarcation between one row and another.And this, in the case of gradated colour, makes theshading…
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