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The Priscilla Battenberg and point lace book; a collection of lace stitches with working directions for braid laces (1912)

Brown, Nellie Clarke, 1861-, Priscilla Publishing Co · Boston, Mass., The Priscilla publishing company · leaf 25

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remainsto be worked at thenarrow parts of thespace, the pattern is turned around, and the lastrow worked from the edge of the second braid,and each stitch, as the work proceeds, is attachedby overcasting stitches to the already finishedTOWS. Where the space is wider, longer stitchesare formed by… … Fig. 56. Spanish Point Insertion. Shell Insertion. One of the most beautiful of all the insertions iscomposed of Spanish point stitches. The threadis fastened at the upper left corner of the space,or, in the case of an oval-shaped space, in theupper point. It is then carried by overcastingstitches…

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