Description of Designs Illustrated.
Plate No. Leaf
coloured
in
hanging.
6.
wools,
17th
English,
67
from
a
century
linen
[1392],
This reproduction illustrates a light method
The outer band
of leaf treatment.
The
next, in green,
is
work
of
herring-bone stitch.
in blue wool, in close
is
an Oriental stitch
— one
long stitch the width of the band crossed a short one in the centre
Roumanian
side
is
Then
follows a
row
in green.
and outEach fang
finished on the inside
by a tooth border
made with
by
sometimes called
very open herring-bone stitch
of
This group
is
stitch."
;
in green.
three stitches which spread at
the base and meet and enter the material at the point
or fang
is
;
the space between each tooth
about a quarter of an inch.
The
stem and centre fibre of the leaf, in yellow% is formed by a double row of satin stitch worked on the slant the small veining, in ;
the
same
The diaper
colour,
is
in herring-bone stitch.
filling in green is made with loops wool held down (couched) by a stitch in the centre, thus taking the shape of a horse-
of
shoe.