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 62
hread, without twisting it, up to the top righthand knot, and commence another stitch over the nextfour meshes. Foint de Bnixcllcs, also called Point de Feston(which .see). Point dEsiorit.—This is a light open stitch, mostused in Guipure, as it fills in the netted squares withmany varieties of… … riG. 4^2. Point uEspkit. Fio. 453. PoisT nEsPRiT. shown in Fig. 453, or as filling in the entire gi-ound ofthe netting, except where a thick pattern is worked inGuipure en Relief {see Fig. 432), or as a Wheel or Star;in fact, the combinations that can be made with it arenumerous. To work for a…
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