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 154
two fish pairsare each twisted once, cloth-stitched through each other and again twisted once,in readiness to enter and form the fish directly below. It is well to hold thesebodies in line by supporting the cloth-stitches above the fish by pins, which arenot, however, closed, but which should be… … Each pair is twisted twice between outworks. Pins are used only for sup-port. The horizontal line which traverses the ground between the outworks—-that is, the one touching the point desprit diamonds at their lower and uppertips—is cloth-stitched with the pair, which in the cutwork just finished…
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