Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 343
or shading effects. In thestitches known as chain, knotted, and button-hole stitchthe thread is looped; but lies flat in satin-stitch, crewel,darning, tent, and cross stitches. Satin and darning 324 HIS rORIC CRN A ME NT. stitches can be worked so that the design appears the sameon both sides of… … Fig. 274.—State Gloves, formerly belonging to Louis XIII. (S. K. M.) varnished or lacquered it goes black by tarnishing. Gold passing is a silver-gilt thread wound around silk. In old embroideries and woven tissues a gold thread wasmade of thin parchment gilded and twisted around silk:the Japanese…
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