Home decoration: art needle-work and embroidery; painting on silk, satin, and velvet; panel-painting; and wood-carving (1881)
Ruutz-Rees, Janet E. (Janet Emily), b. 1842 · New York : D. Appleton and Company · leaf 37
will hang loose and havea bad effect unless the thread is drawn round the needleclose up to the work before the needle is pulled quitethrough. Holbein-stitch is a name given to stitches used in elab-orating designs copied from the works of Hans Holbein, 32 HOME DECORATION. and in reality it owes… … Fig. 13.—Knotted-Stitch, or French Knot. towels, and sometimes of table-cloths, which are finishedoff with elaborate fringes of the material raveled out, thestrands being then plaited and knotted in various pat-terns. It is worked in colored silks if upon linens, while,if upon canvas, embroidery…
Needlework · Handicraft
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