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 12
Crewel Work—BACEGROtiNB. is worked thus: Fig. 176—Trace the background design 0 2 THE DICTIONARY OF NEEDLEWORK. upon, tlie material, being careful not to mark it ont \iponany part of the pattern; take fine crewels or raw silk of onecolour and darn the long lines of the crosses, but work the ^ . ^ A… … Fio. 178. Crewel Woek—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 colom-ed crewel orsilk to that used in the darned lines, and…
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