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Church embroidery (1911)

Dryden, Alice · London, A. R. Mowbray · leaf 136

An illustration from Church embroidery, 1911, leaf 136
Church Embroidery I 12 drawn taut the gold should be taken in the finger and turned sharply back in order to make the turning-point neat. The commonest form of stitching the gold … Fig. 7- pends upon the design. Care must be taken in stitching down gold that the stitches are quite straight across and not slanted. There are varieties . of patterns which can be Fig. 8. produced in the gold ground by varying the position of the couching-stitches, e.g., wavy, diagonal, dia- per,…

Embroidery · Church vestments

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