The dictionary of needlework : an encyclopaedia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework. Dealing fully with the details of all the stitches employed, the method of working, the materials used, the meaning of technical terms, and, where necessary, tracing the origin and history of the various works described. Illustrated with upwards of 800 wood engravings, and coloured plates. Plain sewing, textiles, dressmaking, appliances, and terms (1885)
Caulfeild, Sophia Frances Ann, 1824-1911 · London : L. Upcott Gill · leaf 77
In former times these busks were made of wood. Buttonhole, Ornamental.—The illustration (Fig. 102)is of an ornamental Biittonhole. AVork the spray of leavesin raised Satin Stitch, the stem and battlemented out-line surrounding the Buttonhole in Oveecast, and thedots in Point de Pois. Buttonhole… … Fig. 103. Bdtioxhole in Lace Woke. The manner of working is identical with ButtonholeStitch; but, as a number of rows are required insteadof the ordinary single Buttonhole, the loops of each roware used for the foundation of the next, and the needle ispassed thi-ough every one of them. The efllect…
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