Embroidery : a collection of articles on subjects connected with the study of fine needlework, including stitches, materials, methods of work, and designing, and history ... (1909)
Christie, Grace · London, James Pearsall · leaf 148
lacing bands are carried out inthe lighter stone-colour in herring-bonestitch, worked openly. The back stitches,to be seen on the reverse side, are aboutthree-sixteenths of an inch in length ; but itwill be observed that those taken on theinner edge of the curve should be the leastdegree shorter… … A TABLE-CENTRE. (For particulars see the last page of this part. J EMBROIDERY taken to keep the spacing quite regular inturning the corners. The darning follows the shape formed bythe herring-bone bands, and is worked fromoutline to centre. As strict regularity isnot desired, the spaces between the…
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