item: #1 of 9 id: 12642 author: Unknown title: The Lady's Album of Fancy Work for 1850 Consisting of Novel, Elegant, and Useful Designs in Knitting, Netting, Crochet, Braiding, and Embroidery, with Clear and Explicit Directions for Working the Patterns date: None words: 20379 flesch: 92 summary: STITCH.--This resembles long stitch, excepting that the cotton is twisted twice round the needle. SINGLE OPEN CROCHET.--This is a succession of long stitches, with a chain-stitch between each, missing one stitch of the foundation; in the succeeding rows the long stitch is worked between the two long stitches of the preceding rows. keywords: c s; centre; chain; chain crochet; double; french; illustration; long; loop; plain; round; row; stitch; stitches; work cache: 12642.txt plain text: 12642.txt item: #2 of 9 id: 15147 author: Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) title: Beeton's Book of Needlework date: None words: 93105 flesch: 84 summary: The number of stitches depends on the length and size of the cotton; work double stitches round the circles at the place where both ends meet. Materials: Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.'s tatting cotton No. 30; tatting-pin No. 3. Begin by working separately a sufficient number of small rosettes, each composed of six ovals of double stitches and purl. keywords: 1st; chain stitch; circle; cotton; cotton round; crochet; crochet cotton; double; embroidery cotton; hole stitch; illustration; knit; lace; long; needle; pattern; point; purl; purl stitch; repeat; round; row; satin stitch; slip stitch; stitch work; stitches; tatting; throw; work cache: 15147.txt plain text: 15147.txt item: #3 of 9 id: 20776 author: Dillmont, Thérèse de title: Encyclopedia of Needlework date: None words: 145300 flesch: 85 summary: 125).--Fill in every other diagonal row of meshes with chain stitch, inserting the needle into the same mesh it came out of, so that the thread lies in front of the needle, in a loop. The rows of chain stitch may be made with two or three rows of meshes between them. keywords: 1st; 2nd; 3rd; 4th; chain =; chain stitches; coton; cross stitch; d.m.c; d.m.c nos; double; fig; fil; half; illustration; knit; knots; lace stitch; left; loop; needle; nos; pair =; pattern; picot; plain; point; purl; right; round; row; rows; second; single; stitch =; stitches =; thread; treble; work; | | cache: 20776.txt plain text: 20776.txt item: #4 of 9 id: 26120 author: Lowes, Emily Leigh title: Chats on Old Lace and Needlework date: None words: 37266 flesch: 69 summary: Messrs. Haywards (whose courtesy is as boundless as their reputation) are always pleased to show this and their other splendid specimen collections to those interested in old lace. With the aid of these little charts, a remembrance of the various styles and a few actual specimens of lace, and _a powerful magnifying glass_, it is not beyond the power of any reader of this little book to become expert in the identification of old lace. keywords: art; brussels; brussels lace; century; collection; design; early; embroideries; embroidery; england; english; fine; france; gold; great; ground; illustration; inches; italian; kensington; lace; making; mary; museum; needlework; old; period; picture; pillow; point; point lace; queen; silk; silver; south; specimens; stitch; stuart; thread; time; venetian; work; yards cache: 26120.txt plain text: 26120.txt item: #5 of 9 id: 28269 author: Buckle, Mary title: Art in Needlework: A Book about Embroidery date: None words: 47343 flesch: 76 summary: Of line stitches, for example, some are best suited for straight lines, others for curved; some for broad lines, others for narrow; some for even lines, others for unequal; some for outlining, others for veining. Embroidery, it has been shown, is much of it on the surface of the stuff, not just needle stitches, but the stitching-on of something--cord, gold thread, or whatever it may be. keywords: art; chain; colour; crewel; design; edge; effect; embroidery; form; gold; ground; illustration; lines; needle; outline; pattern; right; satin; sidenote; silk; stitch; stitch sampler; stitches; stitching; stuff; surface; thread; use; way; white; work; working cache: 28269.txt plain text: 28269.txt item: #6 of 9 id: 29382 author: Anonymous title: The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet date: None words: 46081 flesch: 75 summary: This is called plain stitch, and is to be continued until one round is completed. A CROCHET NECK CHAIN.--Commence with fine plain stitches; then put the needle through the back of the second, and make one stitch plain. keywords: cast; color; end; form; half; illustration; knit; knitting; loop; material; mesh; needle; net; netting; pattern; pearl; plain; round; row; row plain; rows; second; silk; stitch; stitches; threads; wool; work; working cache: 29382.txt plain text: 29382.txt item: #7 of 9 id: 31714 author: Menzies, Sutherland, active 1840-1883 title: The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries date: None words: 104770 flesch: 64 summary: Fashion in those days was not quite the chameleon-hued creature that she is at present; nor were the fabrics on which her fancy was displayed quite so light and airy: their gold _was_ gold--not silk covered with gilded silver; and consequently the raiment of those days, inwrought with slips of gold beaten thin and cut into spangles or strips, and sewed on in various patterns, sometimes intermingled with precious stones, would carry its own intrinsic value with it. One while the Englishmen rushed on, another while they fell back; one while the men from over sea charged onwards, and again at other times retreated. keywords: ages; arms; art; battle; beauty; bishop; book; castle; century; chapter; charles; church; circumstance; cloth; clothes; coat; colours; come; country; course; court; day; days; death; des; dress; duke; edward; elizabeth; embroidery; end; england; english; fair; family; fashion; father; female; field; figures; fine; flowers; following; form; france; french; garments; general; gentle; god; gold; golden; good; great; hair; half; hall; hand; hangings; harold; hath; having; head; henry; history; hodge; holy; honour; house; john; kind; king; knight; ladies; lady; large; lay; left; les; life; light; linen; lord; love; man; mantle; mary; means; men; mind; mother; nature; near; needlewoman; needlework; new; order; page; patterns; people; period; person; picture; pieces; place; point; pope; present; prince; purple; queen; rank; reign; robes; romance; round; royal; second; service; set; silk; silver; sir; skill; sort; state; stitch; stones; subject; tapestries; tapestry; taste; thou; thought; thread; thy; time; use; value; walls; way; white; wife; william; women; world; year cache: 31714.txt plain text: 31714.txt item: #8 of 9 id: 34854 author: McGlauflin, Idabelle title: Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care date: None words: 32019 flesch: 84 summary: See Description of Stitches Used in Plain Sewing, page 63. White thread No. 50; needle No. 7. keywords: baste; cloth; cut; edge; end; exercise; fold; half; hem; inch; inches; materials; needle; page; paper; piece; place; right; seam; sewing; sides; stitch; stitches; thread; work cache: 34854.txt plain text: 34854.txt item: #9 of 9 id: 44766 author: Archer, Effie Archer title: The Library of Work and Play: Needlecraft date: None words: 68650 flesch: 87 summary: Thread your needle with sewing cotton or silk the colour of the braid and sew it down with little running stitches and an occasional back-stitch to fasten it firmly. Chain stitch (ch) (Figure No. 227) 3. keywords: braid; centre; chain; cotton; crochet; cut; design; edge; end; fig; figure; half; hand; hem; illustration; inch; inches; left; line; long; loop; material; needle; piece; right; row; rows; space; stitch; stitches; thread; turn; way; white; work cache: 44766.txt plain text: 44766.txt