BLACK WORK—LACE STITCH FILLINGS 109 built up are worked by the counted threads of the ground fabric. When a particularly refined effect is wanted, the pattern should be carried out thus in stitches all of the same length, say, over three threads of ground fabric. In Sampler XXV the patterns are all… … FIG. 176. PLAID FILLING. ^'^'lix without any previous tracing. A star with eight points is first exe- cuted, and then four stitches joining them are put in at the edges. The sheaf filling in figure 175 is of a different type ; it is prettier worked in waved rather than in straight lines, and is…
Samplers · Embroidery
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