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 296
TEXTILE ART fast each to the end of the thread. The variety of pattern and of the character of surface obtainable in this way is likely to surprise one to whom the subject is new. Thus in Fig. 83 is shown a fabric just as simply woven out of stout threads as any … Fig. 83. Genoa guipure, seventeenth century piece of "sheeting"; and Fig. 84 gives such another piece of string-work ; only, in this piece there seems to have been added a little embroidery — a little needle-work — to the brides, or cross- pieces, which hold the fabric together. The threads of…
Art · Decorative arts
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