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Art embroidery: a treatise on the revived practice of decorative needlework (1878)

Lockwood, Mary S. (Mary Smith), 1831-1922, Glaister, Elizabeth, Crane, Thomas, b. 1843? · London, M. Ward & co. · leaf 50

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goodeffect, but they are, as a rule, only modifications of the more generallyuseful ones that we have described. Every worker has her owndevices for getting over difficulties or giving effect to her work,suggested by the necessity of the moment or the peculiarity of hermaterials—devices that,… … S the kinds of work we have described cannot bepurchased at the shops ready for the needle, and asit is difficult, if not impossible, to have the designwe have made traced satisfactorily on the materialby another hand, we will give a few directions for making theseuseful preparations. The trouble…

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