An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth (1900)
Strange, Thomas Arthur · London : McCorquodale, New York, Scribner · leaf 152
f both with a warp and a weft,no part of which appears on the outside. To make the stitch the workmantakes a shuttle, and separates with his left hand the thread of the warp onwhich he is to begin, and draws it towards him ; he then passes the shuttleand the worsted thread which he holds with his… … No. 3. Between these two shoots the wool forms on the front -of the warp a ring, the diameter of which is according to the height of the pile. A round wire, sharp at one end, is then passed through this ring or loop, and a row of rings is then formed on it by the repetition of the stitch. By…
Decoration and ornament · Furniture · Interior decoration
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