Embroidery and tapestry weaving : a practical text-book of design and workmanship (1912)
Christie, Grace · London : J. Hogg · leaf 172
d tyingthese down at intervals with couchingstitches. Yet another way is, to work asplit or stem stitch over the laid threads,and thus fix them down. Fig. 92 showsa flower carried out in laid work. Thetying-down threads can often be madeuse of in one way or another to furtherdecorate, or to explain… … Fig. 92. thread. The centre of the flower has ageometrical filling, composed of a couchedlattice pattern with French knots between. 169 Methods Conventional centres of this and like kindsof Work are very pretty for embroidery flowers;such patterns as those shown in fig. 93can often be seen inuse,…
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