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Fancy work for pleasure and profit (1905)

Heron, Adelaide E · Chicago, Thompson & Thomas · leaf 85

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purchased just the right thing. This method of selecting embroiderythreads leaves nothing to accident or whim, and thus will be avoided inhar-monious and ignorant shading. PROPER METHOD OF SHADING. Having selected our embroidery silks, the next thing in order will be touse them correctly. In… … FIG. face that is shaded from light to dark in the same color and with gradualblending. We must, of course, consider the position of the flower or foli-age; thus, in shading most flowers presenting afull frontview—see figure 55—the rule is to begin at the tip of thehighest petal, and with the…

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