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
ions 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 toexpress some… … Fig- 13 is a detail from an altar-cloth band. Itrepresents a man with an uplifted stick hold-ing in check three saddled horses; below isa dog. The group probably illustrates anincident in some well-known story. Theleafy scroll work surrounding the figures iscarried out mostly in chain stitch worked…
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