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 111
C iewel Work—Background. is worked thus: Fig. 176—Trace the background design o 1 100 THE DICTIONARY OF NEEDLEWORK. upon the material, being careful not to mark it out uponany part of the pattern; take fine crewels or raw silk of onecolour and darn the long lines of the crosses, but work the /S A A… … Pig. 178. Crewel Wore—Background. long diagonal lines that form diamonds where they inter-sect, and darn them down with three rows of fine crewelsor raw silk. Then cross the lines where they meet witha Cross Stitch worked in a different coloured crewel orsilk to that used in the darned lines, and…
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