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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 62

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ink in the wasbing. The darn should be commencedand finished at all four sides at some distance from thebeginning of the hole, a little beyond the worn or thinportion requiring to be strengthened. The toes and heelsof socks and stockings, if not of extra thickness, shouldbe darned one way, but not… … Fig. 272. Cashmere Darn. ravellings of the cloth itself; and having tacked the latterclosely to the hole, on a piece of Toile ciree, begin as in THE DICTIONARY OF NEEDLEWORK. U3 ordinary darning, by running threads across the hole toform a warp. Then take up two threads and miss two;and in every…

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