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Cross Stitch Patterns
Cross Stitch Patterns
Cross Stitch Patterns
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Cross Stitch Patterns

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 6, 2016
ISBN9781473355262
Cross Stitch Patterns

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Cross Stitch Patterns - Margaret Agutter

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CHAPTER I

STITCHES AND MATERIALS USED IN CROSS STITCH EMBROIDERY

CROSS stitch is a very simple stitch, but it must be worked correctly to achieve the full decorative value of the formal patterns and designs. The gay peasant embroideries from the most primitive Slavonic village, and the child’s sampler sewn by some little girl in this country in the eighteenth century, owe their charm as much to the perfect regularity of the stitches used as to the gaiety of design and colour. Each stitch is made over the same number of threads, even on the very finest linen. The silk or linen thread used is carefully chosen to match the texture of the material, so that the pattern seems to become a part of the original

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