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 52
white colour, and the embroideryis carried out in Mallard floss silk, inbright shades. The curved lines of the stems and tendrilsare worked in stem stitch (see Part I) in adull purple. Whilst working them the thread should be kept on the right-handside of the needle, and small neat stitchesshould… … Fig. i8 This similarity of treatment of stem andleaf is necessary to give a certain unity tothe whole, since the flowers all differ. Twoshades of green are used for the leaves, awarm and a cool one, and they are used inregular alternation, undulating lines of eithershade running upwards diagonally…
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