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Title: The Honiton lace book
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Devonia, pseud
Subjects: Lace and lace making
Publisher: London : Bazaar
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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four pair and with a pearl edge, worked in squares.Do all the lines one way first, and then the cross bars, making asewing as you cross each line; these sewings are very easy, you merelydraw the loop underneath the line to be sewn to, and pass the other throughit. When you reach the lace, make a rope sewing, or plait beginners stemto the next line, where practicable; but if you must cut off the bobbinsfasten with two sewings, and tie up. If you are arranging a piece of lace to be grounded in this stitch,you should rule blue paper in squares first. Tack your sprays on facedownwards, pin the paper on the pillow, and work along the lines. CHAPTER XVI. Ivy Leaf Pattern—Open Bead Braid—Net Ground. The particular points to be noticed in this pattern are the braid andgrounding, the leaves and flowers being very easily described. The middlespray, the hearts-ease, is to be made first, and you begin with the flower.Work the inside circle, then the lowest petal, the inner edge of which will
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E-»H < Hi IVY LEAP PATTERN—OPEN BEAD BRAID—NET GROUND. 45 require, a false pin-hole at every stitch ; this petal will require ten pair anda gimp. The two upper petals are done in raised work ; ten pair in thewhole stitch one, and nine pair in the lace stitch. Then do the stems withtheir leaves and buds, which need not be particularised, and lastly the sidepetals of the flower. Hang on eight pair and a gimp at the point wherethe lowest petal joins it, and work in lace stitch, finishing at the cornerof the upper petal; then work the little bit of stem to the main stalk. Theivy leaves are made with a fibre-stem, a band round in whole stitch,and fibres in Devonia stitch. The footing braid which is called openbead, is done with twelve pair; stem is worked on each side to theplace where they join, when the outside pair works straight across andback again, after which the sides diverge once more. I have grounded thispattern in the net ground in order to teach both the pillow and the

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