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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 119

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much used in Ticking and other fancy Embroiderywork. It consists of short straight lines, arranged invarious designs upon the surface of a material, and canbe made with purse silk, coloured filoselle, and white oringrain cotton. To make: Trace an outline of the patternto be worked upon the… … &;! Fiq. 372. Point de Smtene. again at the point of a fresh line, and draw the threadup. Continue to cover the drawn lines with lines of silkthus made until all are worked over. Point Mexico Stitch.—A name given to ButtonholeStitch when used as au outline stitch in Mexican Em-broidery. To…

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