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Florence home needle-work (1895)

Nonotuck Silk Company · leaf 25

An illustration from Florence home needle-work, 1895, leaf 25
FLORENCE HOME NEEDLE-WORK. MOSAIC EMBROIDERY WITH CORTICELLI WASH SILK. Gentlemans Fouk-in-iiand Scarf. (Figs. 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 34.) Materials. —Five spools EE Corticelli Wash Em-broidery Silk (Pig. C), one piece of Florence SilkMosaic five by forty-five inches, one piece of… … Fig. C. — Corticelli Embroidery Silk for Darning Scarf. Fine bleached linen huckaback can be used for this work, but as it seldom comes entirely free from imperfections in weaving the Silk Mosaic is more desirable, and has the further advantage of a richer effect. It is woven exactly the right…

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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