Artistic embroidery : containing practical instructions in the ornamental branches of needlework (1880)
Church, Ella Rodman, b. 1831 · New York : Adams & Bishop · leaf 93
nd beginthe embroidery. To work a straight line, as in Figure 65, make ahorizontal stitch of two squares of the canvas, pass over two squares,work another horizontal stitch on the following two squares—andcontinue the first row in this way, always taking up two squares forone stitch, as shown by… … Fig. 64. each side; and the stitches on one side will always come on the inter-vals of the other side. In order to close the line, and fill all intervals, work, going back, just as in the firstrow (see Figure 67), which completesthe line, and brings the working threadback to the point where the…
Embroidery
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