The household oracle : a popular referee on subjects of household enquiry : including: - house building, buying and renting; house furnishing and decoration; housekeeping and domestic cookery; plain and fancy needlework; home farming, gardening, medicine; law; an epitome of the history of the world and the growth of the human family; the formation of our mother tongue and the rules of English grammar; a dictionary of religions; stepping stones of English history and a sketch of the English constitution setting forth the rights, privileges and duties of the English householder parochial, municipal, imperial; the story of the calendar, standards of weights and measures; arithmetical tables and tables of interest and a ready reckoner; household amusements, games, chess, cards and other indoor games, dancing, swimming, etiquette, ... (1897)
Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry), 1848-1929, University of Leeds. Library · London : Hutchinson & Co. · leaf 328
manner as flat Satin Stitch but it is done over a padding which is made \ thus: — Run a thread round the design I and fill in the part to be raised with threads going in an opposite direction to those which cover them. The padding should be graduated, being raised in the middle or sloping from one… … Fig. 21. so as to produce a honey-comb effect . Arabian Stitch is suitable for filling makes another variation. \ in large designs only. It may be done Mountmellick Embroidery is » effectively in silk, filoselle, flax thread.
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