Artistic embroidery : containing practical instructions in the ornamental branches of needlework (1880)
Church, Ella Rodman, b. 1831 · New York : Adams & Bishop · leaf 102
venteen inches wide, embroidered in cross-stitch and Holbeinwork with blue or red cotton. The towels are trimmed besides withan open-work design and knotted fringe, and are hemmed narrow onthe sides with a cross seam of the colored cotton. To make a towel, work eight inches from the bottom a rich… … Fig. 93. a distance of an inch, ornament the towel in a design worked incross-stitch over canvas with colored cotton. After finishing the embroidery, draw out the threads of the canvas,and between the borders execute an open-work design. For this,draw out always four threads of the linen lengthwise…
Embroidery
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