Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910, Buckle, Mary · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 238
she cannot—as, forexample, in the tulipherewith (83). A lessintelligent manage-ment of the stitchit would be hardto find. The needle-strokes, far from helping in the very slightestdegree to explain the folding over of the petals,directly contradict the drawing. The flowermight almost have been… … 83. MEANINGLESS DIRECTIONOF STITCH. 212 ART IN NEEDLEWORK. form at all, so as to give a flat tint, in whichis no hint of modelling; but the intention is herequite obviously naturalistic. The rendering below(84) shows the direction the stitches should havetaken. The turn-over of the petals is even…
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