Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910, Buckle, Mary · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 80
goer at the pointwhere the needle enters the stuff (F on the sampler,Illustration 20). It will be seen that at the back(21) this looks like a double row of back-stitching.Worked straight across a w7ide leaf, as in the lowerhalf of sampler, it is naturally very loose. A bettermethod of working is… … THE WORKING OF G ON HERRING-BONE SAMPLER. The stitch at G on sampler, having the effectof higher relief than ordinary close herring-bone(F), is sometimes misleadingly described as tapestrystitch. It is worked, as the back of the sampler(21) clearly shows, in quite a different way. Youget there…
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