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Explains hand positions for stitching, how to lay gold thread close to design edges, how to fasten and couch single or two strands, and which contrasting silk shades work well. Covers bricking, ladder and zigzag arrangements, Italian stitch foundations, damask variations, long-and-short shading, and examples using floral frameworks and ornamental motifs.","# EMBROIDERY STITCHES\n\n“And they did beat the gold into thin plates,and cutit into wires,to work it in the blue,and the purple,andin the scarlet,and in the fine linen,with cunning work.”Ex.39:3.  \nNE of the first lessons to learn is how to em-broider with both hands,the right hand un-der the frame,and the left hand on top;theright hand pushing the needle up and theleft hand pushing it down.Observe this in Figure 1.  \nGold Thread Couching is a simple stitch,forwhich is used gold thread(metal thread)onethread or two threads sewn at a time(or pursetwist or filoselle).Gold thread is not pulled downthrough the linen except to fasten it at the endsin the beginning and in the finishing.Lsually sew-ing silk of a contrasting shade is used to sew thegold;orange is preferred,or a rust red;thoughwe use also gold colours.  \nThe simplest of Couching stitches is bricking,aswill be seen in Figs.4;and 7,the gold frame-work that surrounds the rose design.Stitchesare often so arranged as to form diamonds on thegold,or zigzag lines.The threads of gold are laidone or two at a time,and a No.9 needle is usedfor the sewing silk.A large crewel needle will beneeded to thread the gold.A quarter inch is allthat is necessary to pull through the linen in thebeginning.In couching gold around a finished em-broidery,the gold should be laid very close to theedge,and the needle threaded with the sewing silkbe brought up on the outside of the gold and putdown through the edge of the stitches of the em-broidery.  \nAll remarks applying to the couching of goldthread may be applied to the couching of silk twistor cords.(See Figs.5,7 and 8.)  \nItalian stitch in which stout floss is used for afoundation is the most beautiful of stitches.Thefloss is stretched across the surface from end to endof the design,care being taken not to twist a fibre,so that when the surface is eovered it will be asshining and smooth as satin.The finest gold threadis then laid across the silk in lines one-eighth ofan inch apart and couched evenly.The beauty ofthis stiteh depends on the glossy smoothness of the  \nFigure 4  \nCROSs IN GOLD THREAD COUCHING,ONE THREAD AT ATIME  \nFigure5  \nWHITE BURSE IN USE IN WASHINGTON CATHEDRAL  \nShowing how the Agnus Dei should alwaya be represented,on a sky background,and standing on grass and flowers.This fgure is anexample of wool stitch and Italian stitch  \nloss,the straightness of the lines of gold,and the long flat stitehes the entire length of the vein.Fin-  \nevenness of the brieking or couching stitehes.(See est gold thread is then couched across the vein in  \na zigzag line catching the gold down only at theLadder stitch is a variety of Italian stitch usedturns,on the extreme edge of the vein.The veinin embroidering veins in elaborate leaves.An ex-is then outlined with a thread of heavy gold.Theample is shown in Fig.11.The leaf is embroideredveins need not be black.Sometimes we make themin shades of sea green,the vein is black floss laid in blue,sometimes they are gold colour.  \nFigs.5 and 15.)  \n3  \n5  \nFigure 6FLEMISH MITRE OF THE 16TH CENTURY,WITH MANY EXAMPLES OF GOLD THREAD CoUCHING STITCHES  \nFig.7 is an example of gold thread couchingand of the Tudor Rose in long and short stitch.The leaves are done in Italian stiteh,a mostunusual treatment.The rose is embroidered inthree shades of pale pink floss,using the deep-est shade to couch around the edge of each petal.The centre is a pale gold crossed twice with adeeper shade.The leaves are in two shades ofgreen,a light shade on one side of the leaf,and adarker shade on the other side of the leaf,andcrossed with the same shades.  \nvery special work.The floss is stretched from topto bottom of the design and is held down by thegold thread which is put on in serolls,using a veryfine gold.All ends of the gold must be drawnthrough the fabric and fastened securely.The eyeis the only guide available in forming the scrolls.  \nThe damask on which this eross is done is\"Lion'\"damask,one of our richest damasks.  \nL","cbCainsFp24Y9wWd","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainsFp24Y9wWd","pdf",15091762,1,24,"English","en",105,"# Embroidery Stitches\n## Gold Thread Couching Basics\n## Bricking, Zigzag, and Ladder Variations\n## Italian Stitch and Damask Variants\n## Long and Short Stitch Shading","[{\"question\":\"How should the hands be positioned while learning to embroider?\",\"answer\":\"Use the right hand under the frame and the left hand on top. 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