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.