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Dominique Peccatte (15 July 1810 – 13 January 1874) was a French luthier and above all a renowned bow maker. [1] He was apprenticed in Mirecourt and later worked with Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume. He is notable for adapting the "hatchet-shaped" type head — a model arrived at by Tourte — and is
Broderie anglaise is characterized by patterns composed of round or oval holes, called eyelets, which are cut out of the fabric, then bound with overcast or buttonhole stitches. [1] The patterns, often depicting flowers, leaves, vines, or stems, are further delineated by simple embroidery stitches made on the surrounding material.
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Needlework was an important fact of women's identity during the Victorian age, including embroidery, netting, knitting, crochet, and Berlin wool work. A growing middle class had more leisure time than ever before; printed materials offered homemakers thousands of patterns.
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Filet crochet. Filet crochet is a type of crocheted fabric that imitates filet lace. This type of crocheted lace is gridlike because it uses only two crochet stitches: the chain stitch and the double crochet stitch (U.S. terminology; known in some other countries as chain stitch and treble). Old filet patterns used a treble or triple stitch ...
John Dodd (1752 in London – 1839 in Richmond, Surrey) was a British bowmaker.He was considered to be the greatest English bowmaker before and until James Tubbs. [1]He was a gunlock fitter and then a money scale maker before turning to bow making.
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