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)
London, Ward, Lock · leaf 48
29.—BUNCU OF Pelaegoniums. In drawing a design no empty little spaces should be left and yet no unnatural crowdingallowed to appear. To fill up a bare space a little bird, bud, or butterfly will often be founduseful. ABT NEEBLEWOBK. 41 The Japanese have the art of filling up with very little to… … 31.—Fuchsia. 3 z.—Cojs voLvuitrs, they are small, forgetting that much must necessarily be made up of little, and that the highestmountain is merely composed of a vast concourse of atoms. For this reason we choose thickclusters, large flowers and leaves, rather than—as the Japanese—merely covering…
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