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Florence home needle-work (1889)

Nonotuck Silk Company · Florence, Mass. : Nonotuck Silk Co. · leaf 15

An illustration from Florence home needle-work, 1889, leaf 15
le for exercising originality or invention. Belonging to the majority, we findourselves now engaged at every convenient opportunity in the absorbing work of* darning a small piece of linen huck, such as is used for nice towels. Thispiece of darning, in a nearly completed state, is shown on a… … Fig. 5. (Detail of Fig. 4.) The conventional figure is first stamped on the huck. This is a rose and leaf.The darning is first done over the surface of the rose, using a medium shade ofCorticelli Wash Floss (see Fig.E), color, light terra-cotta, drawn in with thread,doubled. The darning is so…

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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