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 156
d inthe needlewoman for its attachment or use. The repairsthus executed are not patchings, but bona fide darns. Swiss Darning is the method of reproducing stock-ing-web by means of a darning needle and thread of yarnworked double. The warp must first be made with a singlethread, as in plain… … Fig. 279 Swiss Darning. to be filled. Run the needle through these stitches, as inplain darning, until the first thread of the warp is reached.Then insert it between the first and second threads of thewarp, bringing it out under the first thread, then pass itbetween the second and third threads,…
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