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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 174

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which produce them;some, or all, of the panels may be decorated,or the enrichment may be confined to thebands themselves. The possibilities thusopened out are very numerous, but for thepresent we must be content with the examplegiven in Plate XVII, in which a design ofplain crossed bands is… … Fig. 89 each going alternately over and under thosewhich it encounters. In fig. 87, which isbut a modification of the cross-band design,decorated with interlacing circles, we havea very simple example of so-called knot- corators rrom very early times. It is commonin both Eastern and Western art, in…

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