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Embroidery silks (1900)

Brainerd & Armstrong Co · New London, Conn. · leaf 20

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inerd & Armstrong Spool Silk Co. It is soft and thick, with sufficient weight to lie smoothly without lining;its lustre, of medium brilliancy, not too great for the work. The best treatment!s full embroidery, for which use Roman Floss, shade numbers 2531, 2530 a,2530, 2002, 2170 for flowers,… … Illustration No. 2. The stitches snould be long and carefully placed in the direction of thepetal from the outside to the centre, and the colors well blended by interlacingand lapping the threads, If preferred, three tones of yellow, 2016, 2015, 2014, may be substituted forthe pinks. The leaves…

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