Art needlework. A complete manual of embroidery in silks and crewels, with full instructions as to stitches, materials, and implements. Containing also a large number of original designs and a handsome coloured design for crewel work (1882)
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or even two, to learning drawing. It is an excellent thing to be able to designas well as draw ones patterns, while a very fascinating amusement is to copy a bunch ofnatural flowers, which may afterwards be painted in worsted. Of course this requires aknowledge of drawing and some ingenuity of… … CHAPTER V. STITCHES AND MODE OF WORKING. ONE of the oldest and most fascinating of stitches is the crewel or long stitch once sofashionable among our grandmothers for tapestry-work, and now revived again among us,we hope, in its fullest perfection. It is decidedly the least mechanical of all the…
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