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Florence home needle-work (1888)

Nonotuck Silk Company · Florence, Mass. : Nonotuck Silk Co. · leaf 54

An illustration from Florence home needle-work, 1888, leaf 54
e, which is shown inthe engraving (see Fig. 128) in nearly full size. It is needless to say that in sewingon this trimming the chain side goes next the ground. The sewing is done by hand,through and through, either with Corticelli Sewing Silk, or with Florence Filoselle.This Filoselle is always a… … Fig. 127. Making Crocheted Silk Braid. (Engraving one-half actual size.) Note. —A one-half ounce ball of Florence Knitting Silk No. 300 will make abouteleven yards of crocheted silk braid, as described, at an approximate cost for silk ofabout three cents a yard. It requires about as many minutes…

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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