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Drawn Thread Work
Drawn Thread Work
Book · 106 pages
A D.M.C Library album on drawn thread work and cut work on linen, edited by Th. de Dillmont. It explains materials, hem-stitches, insertions (interverted, knotted and overcast clusters, darning-stitch bars), openwork grounds, corners, cut stitch, Reticella, Hedebo, Hardanger and Mexican styles. Numbered engraved figures illustrate stitches, and twenty photographic plates are each followed by directions giving linen type, threads removed, and D.M.C thread sizes. It ends with a list of D.M.C Library publications and thread-size charts.
The Net Work
The Net Work
Book · 60 pages
A D.M.C Library album on embroidery on net (lacis), edited by Th. de Dillmont. The text describes hand netting with needle and mesh, making squares and rectangles of straight net, mounting net on frames, and many embroidery stitches such as darning, linen, loop, buttonhole, Venetian and Russian stitch, along with fillings and grounds. It is followed by 20 plates of net embroidery patterns in red and color, a D.M.C Library publications list, and thread-size charts for D.M.C cotton, flax and silk.

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