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 78
s the lace horizontally. A pin should be placed between the twodescending threads under the horizontal pair to sustain the joint and avoidconfusion. Every pair should be twisted once between stitches, except in thecenter of the large open star, where each bar or ray of the star should betwisted… … This pretty and durable stitch is made in the same way as that describedunder Line C, Column 5, except that each pair is twisted once before everyencounter, and a pin is placed beneath each cross to support it. The actual stitch is a linen-stitch. ;□ 76 A LACE GUIDE FOR MAKERS AND COLLECTORS □= -D…
Lace and lace making
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