A lace guide for makers and collectors; with a bibliography and five-language nomenclature, profusely illus. with halftone plates and key designs (1920)
Whiting, Gertrude · New York, E.P. Dutton & company · leaf 122
s 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 fourteen, placing a pin at fifteen, et cetera;leaving one pair… … 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…
Lace and lace making
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
