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Artistic embroidery : containing practical instructions in the ornamental branches of needlework (1880)

Church, Ella Rodman, b. 1831 · New York : Adams & Bishop · leaf 112

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ced by working stitches of an even length onebehind the other on an even line. The passing is couched after thesilk scroll is worked. CHAPTER XIV. CHURCH EMBBOIDERT-PART II. Altar-covers have often been made in a style of great magnificence,and are the most costly articles of church embroidery. It… … Fig. 104.—Super-Frontal in Fleur-de-Lis. The fleur-de-lis pattern in Figure 104 is both simple and effective;and wrought in white and gold would be in good taste on either agreen or crimson ground. The embroidery is done in couching—the fleur-de-lis and the curvedstems in gold twist-silk, sewed…

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