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The dictionary of needlework : an encyclopaedia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework dealing fully with the details of all the stitches employed, the method of working, the materials used, the meaning of technical terms, and, where necessary, tracing the origin and history of the various works described (1882)

Caulfeild, S. F. A. (Sophia Frances Anne), 1824-1911, Saward, Blanche C · London : A.W. Cowan · leaf 78

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nsdresses. The width runs from 18 to 36 inches. Burano Lace.—In this island a considerable quantityof lace was manufactured during the eighteenth century,and the art lingered in the nunneries until 1845. Withina few years the making of lace in Burano has revived, butthe new patterns are not as… … Fig. 102. Botioniiole, Ornamental. Burden Stitch. —A variety of Cushion Stitch andPlain Couching, called Burden, as it was used by a ladyof that name, at the South Kensington Needlework School,for working flesh, but dating from the fourteenth andfifteenth centuries, when German, Flemish, and…

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