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 207
being made by linen-stitching, and the horizontal pair beingused as weaver, working from left to right on one line and from right to lefton the next lower one. The joints should be supported here and there by pinsin order to retain the alignment: but the pins should not be left in long orthey will… … Two pairs are required to make this stitch and they should be twistedthree times between joints. In making the joint, the left-hand thread of theright-hand pair passes under the right-hand thread of the left-hand pair, com-ing out above it and falling forward and downward, now forming a new…
Lace and lace making
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