HANDBQOK OF EMBROIDERY. 55 down. This sort of work is extremely amusing, and gives scope to much play of fancy and ingenuity, and when artistically composed it is sometimes very beautiful. Another style of " onlaid applique " is only worked in solid outlines, laid down in ribbon or cord, sometimes… … both. This was much in vogue in the time of Queen Anne, and for a hundred years after. The ribbon, very soft and thick, sometimes figured, sometimes plain, was manufactured with a stout thread on each side, which could be drawn, and so regulate the ribbon and enable it to follow the flow of the…
Embroidery
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