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Florence home needle-work (1891)

Nonotuck Silk Company · Florence, Mass. : Nonotuck Silk Co. · leaf 83

An illustration from Florence home needle-work, 1891, leaf 83
Fig. 134. —Section of Embroidery. 82 FLOBEETCE HOME NEEDLE-WORK, seemingly quite simple, but requires much care and patience to execute well. The cut shows two small sections of borders of pockethandkerchiefs, which were brought from Switzerland by afriend. The embroidery is done before the… … Fig. 135.—Suction op Swedish Embroidery. and my chief obstacle to success was found in placing thefigures in the centre of this hem. The labor of doing enoughto fill a space in my scrap-book was quite enough to convinceme how persevering the Swiss women are. I used fine can-vass to locate the…

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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