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 178
que pairs cloth-stitch through each other oncebetween fish, forming one open square below the tail of one fish and the headof another. The fish are placed directly below one another. Where the diagonalpairs meet to form a fish—that is, at their heads—they linen-stitch and aretwisted once, the… … Each line on this sample represents two threads. In the long spaces, theyare twisted four times: in the short spaces, once. The joints are made by cloth-stitching. A pin is placed in the center of each joint to keep the lines straight:but is taken out and used again in the next lower line as soon…
Lace and lace making
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