The dictionary of needlework : an encyclopædia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework ... (1882)
Caulfeild, S. F. A. (Sophia Frances Anne), 1824-1911, Saward, Blanche C · London : L. Upcott Gill · leaf 267
d place the needle in and draw up as if com-mencing a Buttonhole ; put the left hand thumb firmlyon the thread, and twist it round, then thread, pass theneedle into the loop on the right of the thumb, and draw up.Commence each line of stitches from the left hand side ofthe lace and work to the… … Fig. 484. Hollie Stitch. shown in Fig. 484, is worked wide apart, and forms a lineof open work between the thick pattern in the lace, but thethick and the open parts of Hollie Point are worked inthe same stitch; in the thick these are placed closetogether, in the open, the space of two or more…
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