Ladies' manual of embroidery and stamping. Giving full instructions in making the stitches .. (1884)
[Trifet, Ferdinand], [from old catalog] comp · Boston, F. Trifet, publisher · leaf 6
thread of the can-vas is not over-worked — only the spaces between. The engraving will give you the proper ideaof the effect and the manner of working. The German stitch is done in precisely the same way asthe Irish, except that the stitch crosses the canvas diagonally. By exercising a little… … G EMBROIDERY. Janina Stitch. No. 18.This stitch is worked wliolly on the surface, except where tlie short back-stitch occurs alongthe outline, in making the stitches. A back-stitch is taken at each side, inserting tlio point at thenext to the last thread and pushing it through to the outside again…
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