The ladies' hand book of fancy and ornamental work ... (1859)
Hartley, Florence · Philadelphia : G. G. Evans · leaf 203
ed on three,four, or more threads, according to the shape of the space intended to be filled.Begin by making a Sorrento bar across the space, from one point to the opposite;then a second one, slipping the needle under the first in going, and over it in 198 POINT LACE. twisting back; then do a… … STITCHES. slip it under two, the first of which is always the last of the previous two, untilyou have made the spot a sufficient size, when you finish the last bar, by twist-ing down to the braid, and fastening off. The size of the space must be the guidefor that of the rosette; but from six to ten…
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