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 195
threads are now cloth-stitched into the lower blocks to formtheir bodies. It should be remarked that these squares are not exactly opposite:—the uppermost pair in leaving a higher square, crosses through the grilledcenter and enters the middle of tbe lower square to the other side: the pair… … These plaits are braided in the usual manner, and the linen-stitch jointsare made as in Lines D and E, Column 13. The right-hand pair is here used to make the picot. It is twisted threetimes and followed by an ordinary picot as explained under Line B, Column 13.To complete it, one crosses the two…
Lace and lace making
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