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 165
boltso well that upon the face of the embroiderythere is hardly any interruption in the surface * This is a method of laying gold threads horizontally across the surface very close together and covering them withvarious coloured silk threads and thus working out a design. (Translator.) 5 EMBROIDERY… … Fig. 80 is all of coloured silk worked in thisway. Let us see, however, how the workermakes use of this curious procedure.Suppose he has to work out a geometricalpattern such as a chevron, zigzag, or lozenge.He counts scrupulously, as in cross stitchembroidery, the threads of the ground 116…
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