. The dictionary of needlework : an encyclopaedia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework dealing fully with the details of all the stitches employed, the method of working, the materials used, the meaning of technical terms, and, where necessary, tracing the origin and history of the various works described . uringthe first part of the sixteenth century. The WadstenaLace has attained great celebrity in Sweden, and untilthe suppression of the monasteries, the nuns retained thesecret of making it. It was made with gold and silverthreads netted or knitted together at first, and finallyplaited t
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. The dictionary of needlework : an encyclopaedia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework dealing fully with the details of all the stitches employed, the method of working, the materials used, the meaning of technical terms, and, where necessary, tracing the origin and history of the various works described . uringthe first part of the sixteenth century. The WadstenaLace has attained great celebrity in Sweden, and untilthe suppression of the monasteries, the nuns retained thesecret of making it. It was made with gold and silverthreads netted or knitted together at first, and finallyplaited together. Outwork and Darned Netting were alsomade in Sweden from a very early date, and the first, underthe title of Holesom, is still worked by Swedish ladies, who adorn their linen and their houses with it; but thegold-plaited laces have quite disappeared, and the onlyPillow Lace now made in Sweden consists of a coarseTorchon Lace resembling the Torchon makes of lace inBedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Germany, made bypeasants in the neighbourhood of the convent of Wad-stena, and being of no value is only used in Sweden forcommon purposes. Swedish Work.—A kind of weaving much practisedin Sweden, and useful for making braids of various colours, string straps, and narrow ribbon borders. It is worked in. Fig. 746. Swedish Work. a small frame, shaped like a comb, and with two sets ofthreads to form the woof, while the warp is made by athread wound upon a very thin shuttle, passed backwardsand forwards, and in and out of the stationary threads.To work as shown in Fig. 746: Choose two colours of silk thread; for the upper threads let it be red, for the lowerwhite. Wind eight red threads separately up into balls, and pass their ends through the holes made for them in theupper part of the frame. Wind up seven white threadsseparately in balls, and pass their ends through the gaps inthe comb at the lowest part. Tie the red and white threadstogether in the front of the frame, and pull t