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 40
itch). In the middle of the nineteenth century, afew years after the printing of the Berlin patterns, theybegan to be solely executed with cross stitch, and that workis often called after the name of the stitch. Cross stitchcan be worked either in a frame or upon the hand, thework in the frame… … Fig. 38. Cross Stitch. wool is taken in a slanting direction across this square,from left to right, the needle being brought up on the lowerleft hand corner, put in at the upper right hand corner,brought up at the lower right hand corner, and crossedback to the upper left hand corner. When…
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