单词 | petit point |
例句 | When I went into the sitting room she was already in her chair, her left foot on the footstool, with its petit point cushion, roses in a basket. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a hard little cushion on it, with a petit point cover: faith, in square print, surrounded by a wreath of lilies. faith is a faded blue, the leaves of the lilies a dingy green. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Guenever was doing some petit point in the gloomy room, which she hated doing. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Guenever was twenty-two as she sat at her petit point and thought of Lancelot She was not half-way to her coffin, not ill even, and she only had six senses. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The average English palate would shudder at the flavour of aioli, but it would be charmed by the insertion of that petit point d'ail which turned mere goodness into triumph and laurelled perfection. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z This method was much practised in France, and the term applied to it in that country, “au petit point,” has become generally used. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z The same fine petit point work is seen on them; seed-pearls and in-run gold threads adorn them, and frequently the Tudor rose, in raised work, forms the shoe knot. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework In order to learn the way to work such subjects we must go to the XVIth and XVIIth century petit point pictures, and to the detail in fine tapestries. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving The earlier is on a book of prayers of the fifteenth century, bound in canvas, and worked with 'tapisserie de soie au petit point,' or as I should call it, tent-, or tapestry-, stitch. English Embroidered Bookbindings A low, high-backed chair, covered with petit point embroidery, is believed to have been the prie-dieu on which the Princesse de Lamballe knelt during the whole of the night preceding her terrible death. From out the Vasty Deep Unlike the early petit point, they were worked in worsteds, whereas the early pictures were wrought in silk. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework One wonders oftentime how many, and yet, alas! how few, specimens of this old petit point work have been preserved. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework They were obviously literal copies of the tapestries which had now become of general use in the homes of the wealthy, being worked in what is known as "petit point," or "little stitch." Chats on Old Lace and Needlework The illustration depicts such a specimen, and shows one of these tiny pictures worked in no less than ten different stitches of lacework, in addition to the usual petit point. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework The scriptural book-covers are always worked on canvas in fine petit point stitches. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Not only pictures, however, were made in petit point. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Queen Mary "a born needlewoman"—The Hampton Court Embroideries—Revival of petit point—Jacobean hangings. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework |
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