Examples of household taste . Majolica : Duiiell & Son, London. upon the parchment, which is next stitched to a piece of coarse linen foldeddouble. The outline of the pattern is traced out by two threads*fixed by smallstitches, passed with another thread and needle through the parchment and itslinen lining. When the outline is finished, the piece is given over to anotherworker to make the ground, which is worked backwards and forwards at rightangles to the border. The flowers are next worked in ; then follow the modesor fillings—the open work or fancy stitches—and other differe
Examples of household taste . Majolica : Duiiell & Son, London. upon the parchment, which is next stitched to a piece of coarse linen foldeddouble. The outline of the pattern is traced out by two threads*fixed by smallstitches, passed with another thread and needle through the parchment and itslinen lining. When the outline is finished, the piece is given over to anotherworker to make the ground, which is worked backwards and forwards at rightangles to the border. The flowers are next worked in ; then follow the modesor fillings—the open work or fancy stitches—and other different completed, the threads which unite lace, parchment and linen togetherare cut by passing a razor between the folds of the linen, and there remainsonly the great work of uniting the different segments together. This processdevolves upon the head of the fabric, and is effected by the stitch called INDUSTRIAL ART 183. I 8 1 <3 3 184 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. assemblage—by us termed fine joining. Point dAlencon is the only lacein which horse-hair is introduced along the edge, to give firmness and consist-ency to the cordonnet. Point dAlencon and dArgenton are the only needle-made laces now pro-duced in France, but the manufacture of pillow-made laces is carried on in the
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