Artistic embroidery : containing practical instructions in the ornamental branches of needlework (1880)
Church, Ella Rodman, b. 1831 · New York : Adams & Bishop · leaf 108
ncient ecclesiastical embroidery are found onexamination to be quite simple, yet capable of producing the mostbeautiful effects. In using gold thread, for instance, it was seldom pulled through thefoundation, but couched: laid on the surface and sewed down, two orthree threads at a time, by… … Fig. 96.—PLAiiq- CoucHii^G. Gold-colored embroidery silk has an almost equally rich effect bymaking three or four parallel lines with it, and working the crossstitches in the contrasting color. Wavy couching is as easy as plain, the undulated first line regu-lating the position of the others to any…
Embroidery
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