Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information : comprising complete and practical instructions on the house and its furniture, artistic decoration economy, toilet, children, etiquette, domestic and fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery, and all other household matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated (1879)
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 874
the wrong side of the work a regular cross stitch is formed.Illustration 13 shows two rows of velvet stitch completed and two rows beingworked ; the first of the latter is yet on the mesh, the second being worked soas to show the position of the wool upon the mesh. Observe that the rows ofthe… … PLAITED STITCH. Illustration 14.—The plaited stitch is worked like the herring-bone stitch. Eachstitch is worked over four threads in height and four in width. Illustration 14shows one part of the plaitedstitch completed, and theplace where the needle is tobe inserted for the next stitchis marked…
Home Economics · Interior decoration
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