Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present day. A handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers (1888)
Lefébure, Ernest, b. 1835, Cole, Alan S. (Alan Summerly), 1846-1934 · London, H. Grevel · leaf 21
through it fromone hand to the other.This operation is to be noted, for to some extentstitches in a sewing machine are made similarly. Themachines specially adapted to embroider are fitted withingenious contrivances, whereby such an operation issimulated. But we shall return to this point… … Fig. 5.—Tambour em-broidery frame (St.Aubin). DEFINITIONS. 9 sort. Embroidery postulates a material foundation.And the character of this foundation has to be dulyappreciated in the course of scheming a design whichshall be appropriately worked on to it. Notwithstand-ing that certain classes of…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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