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 240
re the weaving pair of the ribbon meets the diagonal leg of thespider, it should be noted that it weaves through the ribbon once above theleg and downward through the leg and then drops to the position of a passivepair. The inside, passive pair on the other margin of the ribbon now becomesthe new… … Each leaf requires four threads, and two leaves make a spot. At thetop of the spot, where two leaves meet, one coming from the left and onefrom the right, they are cloth-stitched through each other, each pair beingused as one thread. The next right-hand pair then becomes weaver, and workstoward the…
Lace and lace making
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