Part 2 (1/2)

PLATE 7

Most of the st.i.tchery shown here is similar to that on the preceding plates, but has the addition of the plait st.i.tch[4] edged with b.u.t.tonhole st.i.tch in the veins of the big leaf, and the close knots on the sheaf of the foxgloves, while the sheaf of the convolvulus has veins of stem st.i.tch and small French knots.

In all this piece of work there is to be noted a great deal of b.u.t.tonholing and darning.

[4] A variation of herring-bone st.i.tch.

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Op. IV

PLATE 8

Shows many uses to which stem st.i.tch can be put, which is the only st.i.tch employed in the work ill.u.s.trated here, if we except the little arrow-heads used to edge the vine leaf.

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The following sketches were taken from a most beautiful and elaborate strip of work, forming part of some bed-hangings, dated A.D. 1696, worked in hard twisted crewels in blue, mignonette, and green colourings only.

PLATE 9

treats of b.u.t.ton-holeing st.i.tch done in a variety of ways.

No. 1 has groups of three b.u.t.ton-hole st.i.tches and crosses in centre, and is edged by chain st.i.tch and arrow-heads.

No. 2. b.u.t.ton-hole st.i.tch centre and edge.

No. 3. b.u.t.ton-hole st.i.tch with stalks in stem st.i.tch.

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PLATE 10

In this sketch are three princ.i.p.al st.i.tches, viz.: Chain st.i.tch filling in s.p.a.ces Nos. 1-2 (on left of sketch) and forming the contour of the whole leaf; b.u.t.ton-hole st.i.tch filling s.p.a.ces Nos. 3-4; and a lace st.i.tch filling s.p.a.ces Nos. 5-6-7. The other two s.p.a.ces are filled by brick st.i.tch, and darning with little veins of coral st.i.tch and herring bone. There are loop st.i.tches in the centre of the veining in s.p.a.ces 6-7, and these are also worked round the outside of the leaf.

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PLATE 10a

This leaf, having a contour of chain st.i.tch, is filled in at the top with a brown and blue branch in stem st.i.tch, edged with short-and-long st.i.tch. The green turnover is in chain st.i.tch with blue chain st.i.tch veins, and the blue turnovers at base of leaf are done in a lace surface st.i.tch, while the rest is filled in with small darning st.i.tches, coral st.i.tches and a little bit of b.u.t.ton-hole st.i.tching. The three central leaves crossing stem are in red and green, and blue and green; the brown stalks are worked in stem st.i.tch. Loops are worked round the outside of the leaf here as in all the bigger leaves on this work. The spike on the left of the sketch is in herring bone st.i.tch edged with arrow heads.

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