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Book Review of Teach Yourself Chicken Scratch

Teach Yourself Chicken Scratch
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"Chicken Scratch, a needle lacemaking art, is a very simple form of the elaborate Spanish lace embroideries of the Sixteenth Century. Later it came to be known as Teneriffe Embroidery...Chicken Scratch is made up of Smyrna Cross Stitches, straight stitches and a simple weaving motion. It is worked over the checks to form geometric patterns and simple designs." p. 1