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Florence home needle-work (1888)

Nonotuck Silk Company · Florence, Mass. : Nonotuck Silk Co. · leaf 22

An illustration from Florence home needle-work, 1888, leaf 22
s have been drawnout and three left. Cutting out Threads (Fig. 43). —Open-work patterns are often set inanother kind of embroidery. In such cases, the threads that are to be cut out musthe cut a short distance within the edge and then drawn out, so that there may be aframe of the stuff left intact… … I Fig. 44. Button-holing the Haw Edgesof Cut Open-work. Overcasting the RawEdges (Fig. 45). —Cording the rawedges is even better than button-holing them. Count the number ofthreads carefully that have to be cutout; run in a thread to mark thepattern, after which cut the threadsthrough at least two…

Needlework · Lace and lace making · Embroidery -- Design · Fancy work · Crocheting · Knitting · Cross-stitch · Macrame · Drawn-work · Monograms · Beadwork · Stitches (Sewing) · Tatting · Netting · Openwork · Edging · Insertion · Darning · Irish lace

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