Archer, Effie Archer · Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 142
n a space,a dot, then a space, until the entire Hne is finished. The second row is worked exactly the same onlyinstead of starting on the first dot of the second row,start with the second. The third row correspondswith the first and now at last we have formed adiamond. If a little more colouris… … Fig. 107. Smocking in points dots before starting to smock. If the material issoft the smocking should be stroked or gauged.There is a new term to learn, gauge. It is thesame as stroking in sewing. The English womenhave all sorts of complicated patterns in smocking,but the one that is most popular…
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