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The embroidery guide (1910)

Marvin, Helen · [New York, Woman's Home Companion] · leaf 24

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to the women of Wallachia, who developed the beautiful Wallachian embroidery which is so simple and takes so little time to make, and yet is so wonderfully effective. I often wonder how we managed before it came to our shores, but then in those days hand-embroidered waists were not so necessary as… … cle, a ring not more than A grape design in Wallachian embroidery is not only the love- a sixteenth of an inch in diameter. The stitches must be taken liest to select, but it offers the opportunity to make circles in /-!• 1 -iTr-it. 4. from this ring to the edge of the circle, and buttonholing,…

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