Sewing; handicraft for girls; a graded course for city and rural schools (1918)
McGlauflin, Idabelle · Peoria, Ill., The Manual Arts Press · leaf 118
BASKETRY Hold the commenced coil in the left hand and work from right to left, (a) Wrap the thread toward you over and around the loose reed once, (b) then over the loose reed again, (c) and down from you between the stitches of the fastened reed and back to (a). This completes the long-and-short… … BASKET SHOWING THE MARIPOSA WEAVE. The story of the origin of the name "Lazy-Squaw" stitch is inter- esting. If the squaw was inclined to slight her work she would wrap the loose reed several times before taking the long and more difficult stitch which bound the two reeds together. She would then…
Handicraft · Needlework
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