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 97
ady to cloth-stitch through each other to formthe little solid squares, which, when finished, can be supported at the base bypins. For example, using the inner, upper left-hand pair as a weaver, oneshould linen-stitch through the two pairs coming from the upper right. Oneshould then do likewise… … This net is made by twisting once, then crossing, twisting and crossing,placing a pin and closing it by crossing, twisting and crossing. This mesh ismade on the diagonal; is very simple, and as the strands are interlocked, it ismuch firmer and less apt to shift than Torchon Ground, for which it can…
Lace and lace making
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