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 148
VVV -.. § 5 ■ x v V v * *X*X* All the threads should be twisted twice between stitches. Where the diagonalthreads meet after having been twisted twice, the two inner ones should becrossed, a pin placed, the pairs twisted twice, closed by crossing, and againtwisted twice, ready to cloth-stitch… … This is a scrawny-looking ground, which does not wash well. The ground is entirely made of half-stitches. Three pairs enter at theupper left and three at the upper right. Pins are placed at the top, bottom andtwo sides of the large shaded square, and at each corner of the small squares.The part of…
Lace and lace making
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