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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 112

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with a wide apartline. Then return a line of Herringbone in between theone first made. Run a line of thread down each parallelline, and work over in Double Overcast, turning the edgesof the stitches to the inside, and cut away the materialbetween these lines. Then take a thread down the centreof… … Fio. 30. Open Ladder Stitch. two lines, and bring it out over the loop and draw up,then pass on to where the two next lines cross, andKnot together in the same way. Fig. 351 is an Open Ladder stitch, surrounded withpadded lines of Overcast. To work: Trace the outlineand run the bars of the ladder…

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