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 129
gwith the direction in which the weaver works, one coming, the other returning.The vertical or diagonal pairs should be twisted together three times at theirpoint of intersection, and a pin placed beneath the joint to support it. Then theworker weaves from the right to the left, passing under the… … Three pairs enter at the upper left-hand cornex*, and three at the upper right-hand corner. The ground is entirely made of half-stitch: but it is twisted twiceoutside of every pin to reinforce it. Beginning at the upper left-hand corner,with the left pair as conductor, one weaves through the middle…
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