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. 160. Church Embroidery—Battlemented Flat Couching. diagonal lines across the foundation, and then work thesecuring stitches to imitate the design. Bride Stitch, illustrated in Figs. 161 and 162, isworked in two ways. For the design shown in Fig. 161:Lay down lines of floss silk in a
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. 160. Church Embroidery—Battlemented Flat Couching. diagonal lines across the foundation, and then work thesecuring stitches to imitate the design. Bride Stitch, illustrated in Figs. 161 and 162, isworked in two ways. For the design shown in Fig. 161:Lay down lines of floss silk in a diagonal direction, andsecure them with stitches from the back, pass each stitchover two lines of floss, and work it in at an even dis-tance from the stitch preceding it to the end of thepattern. Work the next line of securing stitches over. Fig. 161. Brick Flat Couching. two laid lines of floss, not directly under the stitches inthe preceding row, but between them. It will be seenon reference to the illustration that these securingstitches are not taken over the whole of the foundation,but are arranged to form Vandykes. Fig. 162 is Brick ^Hcfcfcr Cgg^M >^-vJ ~ Fig. 162. Brick Flat CoucniNG. stitch differently worked : Lay down two threads of pursesilk, and catch these down with a stitch from the backalso of purse silk, and placed at regular distances alongthe bine; work the second line as the first, but place thefastening stitches in it between those of the previous row, Broad Couching, Fig. 163: Work like the Brick Couch-ing last described, but with the securing stitches slightly
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