Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . ll in the spaces. All the points or stitches of needle lace areloops, simple or twisted, formed by a needlecarrying a single thread. (The worker holds theneedle with the base instead of the point, for-ward.) The first row of loops is attached to thethreads of the outlining strand. Arriving at theextremity of the space she is working, the lace-maker begins a second row of loops running inthe opposite direction, attaching each loop to thecorresponding loop of the first row. At the endof this row she fasten
Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . ll in the spaces. All the points or stitches of needle lace areloops, simple or twisted, formed by a needlecarrying a single thread. (The worker holds theneedle with the base instead of the point, for-ward.) The first row of loops is attached to thethreads of the outlining strand. Arriving at theextremity of the space she is working, the lace-maker begins a second row of loops running inthe opposite direction, attaching each loop to thecorresponding loop of the first row. At the endof this row she fastens it to the outlining strandby one or two stitches and starts on the thirdrow, repeating this operation until her space iscompletely covered. The points or stitches most frequently em-ployed are: I. The plat (sketch d), or stitch which formsthe flat woven parts, which can be more orless tightly drawn, and serves for all theopaque parts of the lace. It is made bysimple loops, each row being consolidatedby means of a stretched thread as illus-trated in the sketch. «82 BOBBINS OF BELGIUM. d. Stitch for the plat or surface
Size: 1605px × 1557px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, bookidbobbinsbelgi, bookyear1920
