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 27
t, and is much employed in church work. Any-thing that can be threaded through a needle will embroiderin au passe. In Fig. 18 is given an illustration of embroi-dery upon silk, in which au passe forms the chief stitch, page, represents a group of flowers embroidered in aupasse, with coloured silks… … Fig. 18. AU PASSJ5 STITCH ON SILK surrounded in some places by a border of stem or crewelstitch; in others it forms its own outline, but in all casesit follows the curves and lines of the arabesque fruit andfoliage it delineates ; point de riz is the other stitch usedin this pattern. The…
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