[Projectapollo-general] _B. T. BATSFORD, 94, HIGH HOLBORN, LO

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Ore than two or three ways. There are various ways, some no doubt yet to
be devised, but they must be the ways of the needle. The flesh, of
course, is the main difficulty. A Gothic practice, and not the least
happy one, was to show the flesh in the naked linen of the ground, only
just working the outlines of the features in black or brown. Another way
was to work the face in split stitch, as already explained, and over
that the markings of the features, the fine lines in short
satin-stitches, the broader in split-stitch, as shown in the figure of
King Abias in Illustration 87. The general treatment of the figure there
is of course in the manner of the 14th century, better suited, from its
severe simplicity, for rendering in needlework than later and more
pictorial forms of composition. That needlework can, however, in capable
hands, go farther than that is shown in Illustration 79, a rather
threadbare specimen of 15th century work, in which the character of the
man's face is admirably expressed. It is first worked in short, straight
stitches, all of white, and over that the drawing lines are worked in
brown. The artist gets her effect in the simpl