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A lace guide for makers and collectors; with bibliography and five-language nomenculture, profusely illus. with halftone plates and key designs (1920)

Whiting, Gertrude · New York, E.P. Dutton & company · leaf 122

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placed at nine, etcetera. When one has reached the end of this row, one starts again at the upperright, using the pairs ten and eleven, placing a pin at twelve. Then using tenand twelve, placing a pin at thirteen; then using three and thirteen, placing apin at fourteen; then using three and… … Each, stitch requires four pairs, and none of them should be twisted. Oneshould work from the right to the left all the way across the piece, cloth-stitchingeach pair as one encounters it, working the cross and the passive pairs in a diagonalline descending towards the left, momentarily considering…

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