A study of the artist's way of working in the various handicrafts and arts of design (1905)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 302
E M BR 01 D E R V changes in the way the needle goes in and comes out again, and in the resulting loops and their combinations. There are, however, some other processes which should be named ; thus Couching … Fig. 86. Embroidery in silk with couching of gold cord. Japanese work, eighteenth century is the laying down of the thread, or bundle of threads of the cord or wire, usually a rather stout one, flat upon the surface of the stuff which is to be embroidered, and the holding of this in place by little…
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