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September 28th, 2006 at 7:28 pm thomas feston says:

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I am thinking that it would be a fine thing if I made you a waistcoat embroidered with gold thread and flowers made in feston and fil-tiré so that you flash in the sunlight when you dance.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

Pelagia pointed with her finger, 'This is fil-tiré, and that is feston.'

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

It is worked in point de feston and star wheels; the border is in point d'esprit.

Beeton's Book of Needlework 1850

This insertion is worked in point de toile, and wheels worked in point de feston.

Beeton's Book of Needlework 1850

The centre of this square is worked in point de feston as well as the border; point de toile forms the groundwork of the square in the centre, round which a row of button-hole stitch is worked.

Beeton's Book of Needlework 1850

No. 533 is a succession of point de feston stitches, which half fill each square of the netting.

Beeton's Book of Needlework 1850

This strip of insertion is 8 stitches wide, and is worked in zigzag lines of point de feston, with a border of point d'esprit and point de toile; a four-point star occupies the centre of the triangle left by the zigzag line.

Beeton's Book of Needlework 1850

The pattern for the centre, one quarter of which only is seen in the illustration, consists of 4 branches forming small triangles in point de Bruxelles, 4 open-worked stars or wheels worked over 4 holes of the netting, and a four-branched centre of point de feston with a wheel in the middle.

Beeton's Book of Needlework 1850

No. 517 is worked in point de feston and point de Bruxelles, alternately round a centre simply crossed by point d'esprit threads.

Beeton's Book of Needlework 1850