No. 2. Contour in double chain stitch. Veins in knot stitch edged darning. Loops in middle of centre vein.
No. 3. Contour in stem stitch; vein ditto, edged with two rows of short-and-long stitches and darning.
No. 4. Contour in chain stitch, edged darning. Centre vein chain stitch. Branching veins knot stitch outlined with darning stitches.
No. 5. Contour buttonhole stitch and darning. Veins knot stitch and darning.
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PLATE 14
A group of fillings in which darning plays an important part, the backgrounds of two of the leaves were carried out in indigo, the veinings were worked in solid rows of outline stitch in brown shading to a lighter bronze green, the central vein in the upper leaf was in chain-stitch in dark blue and the outline of leaf was carried out in two rows of chain stitching in darkest indigo. The shamrock leaf has a darned contour of double threads, the filling was in stem stitch, solid, with bars of a darker colour worked across it. The little band at the bottom of the group was a mixture of satin, chain, stem and French knots.