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 41
to beworked on fine canvas. Its only peculiarity consists in its being alternately started from the last row of canvasand from the third. This allows the stitches to end in oneline where the centre of the next line comes, and gives apleasing variety to ordinary groundings. Leviathan Stitch.—A… … Fig. 43. Leviathan Stitch. be taken for one stitch, and a cross stitch made into thefour comers of this square; the wool is then carried acrossthe centre of the stitch from top to bottom, and then fromleft to right, so that it passes through all the outside holesof the square forming the stitch. It…
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