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 39
n as Brick-work.* Cushion-stitch is simply stem-stitch, and by a secondstitch is converted into cross-stitch, as in hand embroidery. Cushion-stitch is aname also applied to themany stitches used ingrounding, either by tak-ing up single threads atlong, even intervals, or(as in Fig. 16) in wavedlines… … •x Fig. 16.—Cushion-Stitch. STITCHES AND METHODS. 35 stretches, winch have the effect of parallel lines; it isuseful in representing water or ground. Among the stitches no longer in common use are tam-
Needlework · Handicraft
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