Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910, Buckle, Mary · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 44
One should employ canvas stitchonly where there is no objection to a line whichkeeps step with the canvas ; then there is a posi-tive charm (for frank people at least) in the frankconfession of the way the work is done. There are many degrees in the frankness withwhich this convention has been… … D.E, 6. CANVAS-STITCH. i8 ART IN NEEDLEWORK. the same page, though they fall, as it were inevit-ably, into square lines, are less-rigidly formal. Theinevitableness of the square line is apparent inthe sprig below (7). It was evidently meant to befreely drawn, but the influence of the mesh betrays…
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