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How to work embroidery stitches; a practical method with 69 illustrations (1909)

[Cartier-Bresson, Mme. ] [from old catalog] · New York, Sold in the United States only by Mills and Gibb; Paris, Printed by Cartier-Bresson · leaf 13

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Fig. io Following the outline work loose hack stitches; then with asecond needleful pass the needle in the nearest stitch going fromright to left, in the following stitch pass from left to right. Work this variety of stitch in two colours. If 3ou pass again the second needleful working the… … Couching is used for filling in or for outlines. Two threads are required, one coarse or several strands areused, the other one hne. After having passed the coarse thread to bring it from thewrong side to the right put it down on the line which is to befollowed. With a finer thread work over it and…

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