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… … Detail C.Fig. 151. Combed Oct Wool Wokk. the pansy and the dark outside lines of Detail A with piecesof velvet cut to shape and caught down with long stitchesof coloured silk, but gum the edges of the velvet intoposition. As each petal is made, crook the end of the wiresupporting it, and hang it up…
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