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 49
l kind of workinto the execution of which chain stitchentered largely. We refer to the well-knownfourteenth-century white linen work of 29 EMBROIDERY German origin, of which the frontispiece isan example. It is remarkable for the indi-viduality which characterises it, and for theboldness and… … the more solid portions of the design thechain stitch changes into buttonhole, withwhich it is of course closely allied. Vari-ous details in the drawing are skilfully ex-plained by the arrangement of the lines andmasses of stitching ; a narrow line of groundmaterial is left clear in parts, in order…
Embroidery
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