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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 235

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the one above. Thepricking is made on the diagonal. A pair should be braided twelve times be-tween joints. Here the two lower pairs are left untwisted; one of the upperthreads is hooked over and above the preceding row, and its mate put throughthe loop, when one twist is made and these two threads… … Twelve threads grouped into three braids enter near the top of each Sun-spot and leave towards its base. The left-hand pair of the right-hand braidbecomes the weaver. It half-stitches through the right-hand pair of the centerbraid. A pin is then placed and closed. The work is continued towards the…

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