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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 72

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g more easily frayed out.Sometimes a scallop edge is pinked out, especially insilk, or in glazed calico; but in white stuffs it Bhould beworked closely in Buttonhole Stitch. Scarves.—These are more or less long, straight, andcomparatively naiTOw lengths of material designed forwear round the throat… … Fig. 725. Saxony Lace. of these, and they end at the letter t; and the pointswhere the threads commence to make each separate oneare indicated by the numerals 1, 2, 3, and 4. Thesmall diamond upon each side of the large one is workedwith Half Stitch, and is marked as to its points by theletters I,…

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