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Florence home needle-work (1888)

Nonotuck Silk Company · Florence, Mass. : Nonotuck Silk Co. · leaf 8

An illustration from Florence home needle-work, 1888, leaf 8
so many articles of house-linen, from ravelling. Second Hem-stitch (Fig. 2). —Prepare your hem as for Fig. 1, and workfrom left to right; with this dif-erence, that after drawing two orthree cross-threads together, fromright to left, you skip the samenumber of perpendicular threadsyou took up… … Fig. 2. Second Hemstitch. Ladder Stitch Hem (Fig. 3)Fig. 1, then draw out three orfive threads more, turn the Iwork round, and repeat the proc-ess, taking up the same clustersof threads which you took upin the first row of stitches, thusforming little perpendicularbars. Double Hem-stitch (Fig.4).…

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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