. 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 . us the frame close together, in others leave open spacesbetween them, and cross and interlace them where neces-sary. After these threads are arranged take a piece of finelawn (that used in olden time was called Quintain, fromthe town in Brittany where it was made), gum it on atthe back
. 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 . us the frame close together, in others leave open spacesbetween them, and cross and interlace them where neces-sary. After these threads are arranged take a piece of finelawn (that used in olden time was called Quintain, fromthe town in Brittany where it was made), gum it on atthe back of the fastened threads, and tack them to the pattern is to be left thick, shape the finelawn to form the design, and Buttonhole round theedge of that part, and where the pattern is left open inter-lace and draw the threads together, and, when the work isfinished, cut away the fine lawn from underneath theseparts. Form an edge to the lace with Buttonhole, andornament the Buttonhole with Picots and the parts of this lace where large portions oflawn are left with embroidery in coloured silks and goldand silver threads. The lighter kind of Cut Work is made thus : Fasteninto the frame a number of unbleached threads and tackunderneath them a parchment pattern. Where the pattern. Fio. 250. CUT WORK. geometrical designs for this work. Two kinds of CutWork were made—the most ancient, a thick kind in whichthe threads were backed with linen; and a light sort,where the- threads were embroidered without a was the commencement of needle made lace, andwas elaborated in Venice into the celebrated VenetianPoint, while in other parts of Italy it gradually mergedinto Reticella, and in the Ionian isles into Greek making of Cut Work has gradually been supersededby the finer and more complicated lace making, but inSweden it is still to be met with, and in England and alongthe coast of France during the last century it was occa-sionally worke
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