A lace guide for makers and collectors; with a bibliography and five-language nomenclature, profusely illus. with halftone plates and key designs (1920) (14593283737)

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Title: A lace guide for makers and collectors; with a bibliography and five-language nomenclature, profusely illus. with halftone plates and key designs
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Whiting, Gertrude
Subjects: Lace and lace making Lace and lace making
Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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tinued Italian 6 Legged Spiders with Ribbons. really does make six horizontal trips. This worker is twisted once each sideof the pendant legs of the spider, between them and the wavy ribbons, but isnot twisted in weaving through the legs. A wavy, eloth-stitch, three-pair band or ribbon separates one column ofspiders from another. Opposite a spider on one side of the upright, wavy border,come six weaver crossings on the opposite side, then another vertical, wavingribbon; then again a spider. Where the weaving pair of the ribbon meets the diagonal leg of thespider, it should be noted that it weaves through the ribbon once above theleg and downward through the leg and then drops to the position of a passivepair. The inside, passive pair on the other margin of the ribbon now becomesthe new worker, cloth-stitching once through the descending leg, and linen-stitching through to the other side of the ribbon. a =□ D= RVLES FOR MAKING 237 LINE H, COL. 15,Trude J Ground (original) (American).
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