Archer, Effie Archer · Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 151
ng them till you haveoccasion to use them. Now we are ready to make use of some of the thingsjust described. The tapestry needle will be brought 124 NEEDLECRAFT into use for our next stitch, which will be couch-ing. It is a beautiful old stitch that is often used as anoutline. It can be made as a… … Fig. 114. Couching To couch with a number of silk or lustre threadsselect a No. 2 tapestry needle. Cut the skein ofsilk so that you will have the longest length of threadpossible. Thread your needle with all the strandsin the skein, if the eye will carry them. Make astiletto hole in the cloth on…
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