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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 188

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for one cannot pull the weaver of aworking pair without misshaping the cutwork. This is, perhaps, what PenderelMoody means by working from the right to the left, as the work would progressin a diagonal line slanting that way. The weaver itself should always be leftlong to distinguish it, and the… … This is made on the basis of Point du Mariage, but each second motifalternates and is cloth-stitched. The pricking is on the diagonal. At the bottomof the Point du Mariage motif where the solid part begins, the two centerpairs linen-stitch; a pin is placed, the pairs are twisted twice and the pin…

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