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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 228

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somewhat resembles Buratto, a textile ground usually woven ona loom and embroidered similarly to the usual filet. The mode here described hasa horizontal weaver, twisted once between pairs, which works from left to rightand then back, et cetera; cloth-stitching through iintwisted, vertical… … See Line C, Column 5 and Line A, Column 5. Four pairs are required foreach stitch, two of them hang vertically, the other two work back and forthobliquely. Every pair is twisted once between stitches. At the point where thetwo verticals meet each other, a cloth-stitch should be made, and a pin…

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