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 . of colour in Vandykes cross-ing. Irish stitch is a long stitch, taken over five or morethreads of canvas, in an upright direction, and it requires tobe worked on fine canvas. Its only peculiarity consists inits being alternately started from the last row of canvasand from the third. This
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 . of colour in Vandykes cross-ing. Irish stitch is a long stitch, taken over five or morethreads of canvas, in an upright direction, and it requires tobe worked on fine canvas. Its only peculiarity consists inits being alternately started from the last row of canvasand from the third. This allows the stitches to end in oneline where the centre of the next line comes, and gives apleasing variety to ordinary groundings. To work : Makea Long Stitch over five upright threads of canvas forthe first stitch; for the second, commence the work twothreads of canvas above the bottom part of first stitch, butcover five threads of canvas as before. Repeat these twostitches to the end of the row; and, for the second row,work in the same way, thus making an irregular line ofstitches, but one that fills up the spaces left in the firstrow. Leviathan Stitch.—A modern Berlin stitch, sometimescalled Railway Stitch, because it is considered to cover thecanvas quickly. It requires large*sized or leviathan. canvas, as is shown in Fig. 43. To work: Take foursquares of canvas for one stitch, and make a Cross Stitchinto the four corners of this square; then carry the wool across the centre of thestitch from top to bottom,and then from left toright, so that it passesthrough all the outsideholes of the square form-ing the stitch. Work alltogether, and make eachBtitch exactly the same asto crossings, or an evenappearance to the wholewill not be given. A greaterquantity of wool is used in this stitch than in othergrounding ones, but it is considered quicker in exe-cution. Varieties of Leviathan are formed by work-ing over six or eight threads in height, and as many inwidth; these require a
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