Archer, Effie Archer · Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 168
a simple lace stitch such as the twistedbar, woven bar, or spiders. Sometimes the spider isused in conjunction with one of the former stitches,and it is an excellent stitch for filling in the corners.Marking cotton No. 20 or No. 25 should be used forRoman cut-work, as well as the lace stitches.… … Fig. 124. The twisted bar thread or stitch three or four times. The stitchesmay be connected and have the appearance of aseries of points (Figure 124). The woven bars are made by working two threadsacross the space about one eighth of an inch apart.
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