Artistic embroidery : containing practical instructions in the ornamental branches of needlework (1880)
Church, Ella Rodman, b. 1831 · New York : Adams & Bishop · leaf 41
nds of lines in the way of reeds and grasses, as in Figure 36, havea particularly characteristic look. Small fans may also be introducedto advantage; and Figure 37 would admit of a small bird and boughat the top on a gold-colored ground, with brown lines for sticks; whileFigure 38 might have a top… … Fig. 36. A full-sized fan with small ones embroidered over it Tvould be apretty conceit; or to introduce them in connection with flowers,butterflies, and other emblems of summer. ARTISTIC EMBROIDERY. 37 It must be borne in mind that this kind of work is never over-loaded—a few grasses, a butterfly,…
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