SAMPLERS AND STITCHES ii6 can be displayed. Figures 190, 194 and the headpiece of this chapter show some of these. Figure 194 can be copied easily, for it shows every thread of the ground fabric. DAMASK DARNING, figures 191,192.—Pattern darning can be fur- ther com- … silk is obtained in the centre. FIG. 192. DAMASK DARNING. There are in existence a number of old samplers, of early nine teenth-century date, filled with most exquisite fine darns of this kind, worked in colours in every imaginable patterning. These were in all probability executed partly to…
Samplers · Embroidery
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