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Florence home needle-work (1892)

Nonotuck Silk Company · Florence, Mass. : Nonotuck Silk Co. · leaf 16

An illustration from Florence home needle-work, 1892, leaf 16
tself look like silk.We should not doour subject justiceif we did not speakof the kind of scrimyou should select;we presume that inmost cases thedealer will showyou cotton scrim,and call it linen;but that is to youradvantage, as hisprice is that of cot-ton, and that ma-terial is much moreeven and… … 16 FLORENCE HOME NEEDLE-WORK. much better with that shade. Do not buy a scrim which iscoarser than twenty-four threads to an inch each way, norone which is finer than twenty-seven threads to an inch.That which is twenty-seven is the best, in our opinion; seethat it is of even weave and full…

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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