Smyrna stitch is a form of cross stitch used in

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. It was popular during the Victorian period and again, later, in the 1950s and 1960s. It comprises a cross stitch worked over two, or more, threads with a straight cross stitch worked over the top. Thérèse de Dilmont in the ''Encyclopedia of Needlework'' gives the following description: :''Make a plain cross stitch over four threads, each way, and then over that, another cross stitch, standing upright. The same stitch can be made over six or seven threads; if you work over more than four threads, it follows that you increase the number of stitches accordingly.''Thérèse de Dilmont
p. 133

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* Gordon, Jill ''Take Up Needlepoint'' 1994 London, Merehurst * de Dilmont, Thérèse
Encyclopedia of Needlework
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