The dictionary of needlework : an encyclopædia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework ... (1882)
Caulfeild, S. F. A. (Sophia Frances Anne), 1824-1911, Saward, Blanche C · London : L. Upcott Gill · leaf 97
until the wool is as fine as floss silk,then snip the edges of the wool to the shape of a pansy petal.A little pure gum judiciously dropped in and about the woolforming the petal will keep the combings from getting outof place, and gum is also used to fix on to the petal thelight fibres of…
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