Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving (Illustrated)
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CONTENTS
• PAGE
• Editor's Preface xi
• Author's Preface xvii
•
• PART I
• EMBROIDERY
•
• CHAPTER I
• Introduction 27
•
• CHAPTER II
• TOOLS, APPLIANCES, AND MATERIALS
• Needles—Scissors—Thimbles—Frames—Stand and Frame combined—Tambour Frame—Cordmaking
Appliance—Requisites for Transferring Patterns—Pricker—Knife—Spindle—Piercer—
Materials suitable for Embroidering upon—Threads of all Kinds—Stones, Beads, &c. 34
• CHAPTER III
PATTERN DESIGNING
• The Difficulties of Pattern Making—A Stock-in-Trade—Some Principles upon which Patterns are
Built Up—Spacing-Out—Nature and Convention—Shading—Figure Work—Limitations—Colour 51
CHAPTER IV
• STITCHES
• Introduction—Chain Stitch—Zigzag Chain—Chequered Chain—Twisted Chain—Open Chain—
Braid Stitch—Cable Chain—Knotted Chain—Split Stitch 75
• CHAPTER V
• STITCHES—(continued)
• Satin Stitch—Long and Short Stitch—Stem Stitch—Overcast Stitch—Back Stitch—Buttonhole Stitch
—Tailor's Buttonhole—Fancy Buttonhole Edgings—Flower in Open Buttonhole Stitch—Leaf in
Close Buttonhole Stitches—Petal in Solid Buttonholing 95
CHAPTER VI
STITCHES—(continued)
• Knots and Knot Stitches—Herring-bone Stitch—Feather Stitch—Basket Stitch—Fishbone Stitch—
Cretan Stitch—Roumanian Stitch—Various Insertion Stitches—Picots 118
CHAPTER VII
CANVAS WORK AND STITCHES
• Introduction—Samplers—Petit Point Pictures—Cross Stitch—Tent Stitch—Gobelin Stitch—Irish
Stitch—Plait Stitch—Two-sided Italian Stitch—Holbein Stitch—Rococo Stitch 147
• CHAPTER VIII
• METHODS OF WORK
• Couching—Braid Work—Laid Work—Applied Work—Inlaid Work—Patch Work 164
•
• CHAPTER IX
• METHODS OF WORK—(continued)
• Quilting—Raised Work—Darning—Open Fillings—Darned Netting 189
• CHAPTER X
• Methods of work—(continued)
• Drawn Thread Work—Hem Stitching—Simple Border Patterns—Darned Thread Patterns—Corners
—Cut or Open Work—Various Methods of Refilling the Open Spaces 213
CHAPTER XI
• EMBROIDERY WITH GOLD AND SILVER THREADS
• Introduction—Materials—Precautions for the Prevention of Tarnish—Ancient Method of Couching
—Its various Good Points—Description of Working Diagram—Working a Raised Bar—Examples of
Patterns Employed in Old Work—Illustrations upon Draped Figures—Usual Method of Couching—
Couching Patterns—Outline Work—Raised Work—The Use of Purls, Bullions, &c. 229
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CHAPTER XII
• LETTERING, HERALDRY, AND EMBLEMS
• The Uses of Lettering—Marking—Monograms—Heraldry—Emblems 259
• CHAPTER XIII
THE GARNITURE OF WORK
• Finishing off—Making up—Edges—Use of Cord-making Appliance—Cord Twisted by Hand—
Knotted Cord—Fringes—Tassels—Knots 271
CHAPTER XIV
PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS
• Transferring Patterns—Paste for Embroidery Purposes—Protection and Preservation of Work—
Washing Embroidery—Prevention and Cure of Puckered Work—Points about the Thread—Dressing
the Frame 292
PART II
• TAPESTRY WEAVING
• CHAPTER XV
• Introduction 307
• CHAPTER XVI
• NECESSARY APPLIANCES AND MATERIALS
• The Loom—Mirror—Bobbins and Needles—The Comb—Embroidery Frame treated as a Loom—
Warp—Wools—Silk—Gold and Silver Thread 315
• CHAPTER XVII
• PREPARATIONS FOR WORK
• Warping the Loom—Dressing the Coat-Stave—Tracing the Pattern upon the Threads 328
• CHAPTER XVIII
• THE TECHNIQUE OF WEAVING
• Weaving—Commencing and Fastening Off—The Interlocking Stitch—Fine Drawing—Shading—
Added After-stitches 339
• Notes on the Collotype Plates 355
• The Collotype Plates 369
• Index 402
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