fish-bone-like

Updated: May 25, 2025

However, it saves confusion to use names as far as possible in their accepted sense. Fine lines may be worked in it, but it appears most suited to the working of broadish bands and other more or less even-sided or, it may be, tapering forms, more feathery in effect than fish-bone-like, such as are shown at E on sampler.

Mary Buckle - Art in Needlework: A Book about Embroidery