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 83
th-stitched through each other, and again twisted threetimes going in opposite directions, but horizontally, towards the tops of otherpoints desprit or leadworks. At the top of a new cutwork, the pairs entering itcloth-stitch. Here a pin is placed and the pairs, after being twisted three times,are… … This filling is worked diagonally in sets of four pearl pins joined by fourbraided bars. Bach bar requires two pairs, and should be made long enoughto reach from the bottom of one set of picots to the top of the next set. At the topof one of these motifs, one takes the inside couple on the left,…
Lace and lace making
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