A treatise on lace-making, embroidery, and needle-work with Irish flax threads . Cloth Ground. Twisted Hole Ground. wanted. These grounds may be used as insertions, etc., and arevery desirable. Close or cloth ground is so called because resembling wovenlinen in texture. Using 5 pairs of bobbins, pin in straight row ofholes at top of pattern, 1 pair each in 3 left-hand holes, and 2 pairsin right-hand hole. (The pattern given for net ground may beused, adding an extra pair of bobbins, and the work is the same, 80 harbours prize needle-work series. save that an additional cross is made in the hal
A treatise on lace-making, embroidery, and needle-work with Irish flax threads . Cloth Ground. Twisted Hole Ground. wanted. These grounds may be used as insertions, etc., and arevery desirable. Close or cloth ground is so called because resembling wovenlinen in texture. Using 5 pairs of bobbins, pin in straight row ofholes at top of pattern, 1 pair each in 3 left-hand holes, and 2 pairsin right-hand hole. (The pattern given for net ground may beused, adding an extra pair of bobbins, and the work is the same, 80 harbours prize needle-work series. save that an additional cross is made in the half-throw.) With4th and 5th pairs, cross, twist, and cross (etc) ; repeat across, pinin 1 st hole at side, etc with 1st and 2d pairs again, to close, workto right again, pin in 1st hole on opposite side, between 4th and5 th pairs, and continue indefinitely. In twisted hole ground the work is done in the same mannerand with same pattern as plain hole ground, there being always anextra twist after the ordinary half-throw. The net is thus madestronger. Other grounds will be explai
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