Art needlework. A complete manual of embroidery in silks and crewels, with full instructions as to stitches, materials, and implements. Containing also a large number of original designs and a handsome coloured design for crewel work (1882)
London, Ward, Lock · leaf 41
ht and wrong sides exactly alike (making, indeed, tworight sides), are wrought in this manner. The piercer here again comes in usefully forkeeping the stitches even and smooth. Sometimes it is desirable to raise certain portions ofthe work; this may be done with cotton, and the silk taken over the… … 22.—Design roii SorA-Crsuiox, &c. ^ taken over it. The stitches should always be taken in a slanting direction—that is to say, theyshould, if possible, never run parallel to either the warp or the woof of the material. Buttonhole stitch, coral stitch, chain stitch, knot stitch, fern stitch.…
Embroidery · Design
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