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 208
there is no materialfiner than gold and no method of embroider-ing it better than the ancient point retire (seefig. 82, Part V). After this come variousordinary couching methods, also quite pretty.Fig. 106 illustrates one. This is taken from EMBROIDERY an Italian XVth-century picture, the subjectof… … Fig. 106 closely couched fine gold, which is intention-ally left without being tied down in parts sothat a repeating flower sprig stands out inrelief, the whole making a rich setting tothe group depicted in front of it. Various Y in this wav in some of the Italian XVth-century work. For more…
Embroidery
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