Samplers and stitches : a handbook of the embroiderer's art (1921)
Christie, Grace · London : Batsford · leaf 151
CANVAS STITCHES 87 laid regularly between to fill up the gaps, and the same treatment can occur at top and base. The groups of stitches need not necessarily occur exactly beneath each other, a half-stitch placed at the commencement of each line of the alternate rows will remove the squared-up… … stitch being taken round again, in the FIG. 133. HOLBEIN STITCH. contrary direction, this time picking up the material so as to fill up the gaps left by the first running. In order to keep the stitching alike on both sides, forethought is some¬ times necessary. If a single stitch branches off from…
Samplers · Embroidery
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