The dictionary of needlework : an encyclopaedia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework dealing fully with the details of all the stitches employed, the method of working, the materials used, the meaning of technical terms, and, where necessary, tracing the origin and history of the various works described . Fig. 38. Cross Fig. 39. Long Cross Stitch. Cross (Long) Stitch.—This is a variation of CrossStitch, the two stitches forming it not making a perfectsquare, as in ordinary Cross Stitch, but a Long Stitchcrossed. To work : Take the wool over a greater numberof threads in height tha

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The dictionary of needlework : an encyclopaedia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework dealing fully with the details of all the stitches employed, the method of working, the materials used, the meaning of technical terms, and, where necessary, tracing the origin and history of the various works described . Fig. 38. Cross Fig. 39. Long Cross Stitch. Cross (Long) Stitch.—This is a variation of CrossStitch, the two stitches forming it not making a perfectsquare, as in ordinary Cross Stitch, but a Long Stitchcrossed. To work : Take the wool over a greater numberof threads in height than in width—four threads inheight to two in width being the correct stitch was more used in Berlin wool work thirty

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