PLATE 2
A group of blue leaves, etc., taken from some old cushions at Knole Park, Sevenoaks.
No. 1. Stem stitch contour: Maidenhair in buttonhole stitch. Star in buttonhole stitch on background of small crosses.
No. 2. Stem stitch.
No. 3. Stem stitch contours. Centre in loop stitch.
No. 4. Stem stitch contours. Centre loop stitch and maidenhair in buttonhole stitch.
No. 5. Stem stitch.
PLATE 2a
GROUP of the lighter details that break up the heavy masses in the earliest and latest examples.
The medlar-like fruit is worked in Crewel stitch in bands of brown, stem lighter in shade.
The leaves, Example I & II, satin stitch with stem stitch outline both sides, centre veinings in stem stitch, turnover in leaf, II, in block stitch.
III Buttonhole edging with darned centre, centre filled with strands of wool caught down at intervals with double back stitch.
IV Flowers in soft blues in satin stitch, acorns have their cups worked in French knots.
Op. III
THE following plates were sketched from an old strip of work done in deep indigo worsted wool, with a rather lighter wool, both in colour and make, used in the fine buttonhole work and darning, of which there is much throughout the work. The design was a branching one, the flowers and leaves—most of which appear in the following plates—are hanging from stems about a quarter of an inch thick done in herring-bone stitch, with the exception of the violas (plate 5) which have a thicker stem of their own in herring-bone, stem stitch and loops. The thistles (plate 3, No. 1) reproduced the same size as in the work, were scattered about in groups of three, making a very pleasing contrast to the hanging roses (plate 6), whilst the irises reared their heads all along the bottom of the strip, but owing to the work having been cut, it was impossible to see how they joined their straight stalks to the branching ones above.