Embroidery and tapestry weaving; a practical textbook of design and workmanship (1906)
Christie, Grace · London, J. Hogg · leaf 117
Stitches carried out partly in open stitches, is illustrated in fig. 52. Fig. 53 is, in the original, a gay little flower carried out in orange and yellow. The stitch employed here is a close button- hole. Another example of the use of close … Fig. S3. buttonhole is shown in the ivy leaf in fig. 54. The stitch is worked in two rows, back to back, in each lobe of the leaf, and the resulting ridge down the centre rather happily suggests the veining. This method of filling in might be just reversed for a rose leaf; the heading of 114
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