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| Keywords: Jacobean leaf bed hanging 1659.jpg Jacobean embroidery leaf pattern This leaf having a contour of chain stitch is filled in at the top with a brown and blue branch in stem stitch edged with short-and-long stitch The green turnover is in chain stitch with blue chain stitch veins and the blue turnovers at base of leaf are done in a lace surface stitch while the rest is filled in with small darning stitches coral stitches and a little bit of button-hole stitching The three central leaves crossing stem are in red and green and blue and green; the brown stalks are worked in stem stitch Loops are worked round the outside of the leaf here as in all the bigger leaves on this work The spike on the left of the sketch is in herring bone stitch edged with arrow heads gutenberg Jacobean Embroidery 18971 http //www gutenberg org/files/18971/18971-h/18971-h htm Jacobean Embroidery Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor 1912 Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam and A F Morris Hands PD-art Jacobean embroidery | ||||
