Artistic embroidery : containing practical instructions in the ornamental branches of needlework (1880)
Church, Ella Rodman, b. 1831 · New York : Adams & Bishop · leaf 25
great con-venience of working in this way willfully repay the trouble of learning it.Two thimbles will be necessary, one forFig. 15. - each hand. THE STITCH FOR SILK EMBROIDERY is the same as for crewel-work, except that it is shorter. Otherstitches are often introduced, which will be noticed in… … AETISTIC EMBROIDERY. 21 should always be above tbe frame, and the left beneath—making thestitches as long as the work will admit of their being, as the brilliancyof the silk is destroyed by crowded and short stitches. Silk embroidery is both dainty and effective; and as the materialsare expensive,…
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