Text-book on domestic art, with illustrations and drafts (1911)
Ingalls, Carrie Crane · San Francisco, Foster & ten Bosch · leaf 222
DOMESTIC ART 199 needle, instead of right, giving a reverse slant to the stitch. Couching is overcasting over two or more strands of thread, silk, cotton, gold or silver cord, etc., on a line to be outlined. The strands may lie flat or twisted, but on this sampler use 3 strands of the luster… … strands flat and firm, and take small slanting over- cast stitches y% inch apart. Couching in different colored thread tends to blend colors too closely if stitches are too close, so the couch thread is usually the color of the background of the mate- rial, or the color of the cord to be couched.…
Sewing · Dressmaking · Embroidery
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