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Fancy work recreations : a complete guide to knitting, crochet, and home adornment (1885)

Niles, Eva Marie · Minneapolis, Minn : Buckeye Pub. Co. · leaf 317

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p yellow, pink, or dark red. This last should be made by white wax painted with dry carmine, by the tinting brush before it is cut out, and the cut edges touched with the same after cutting. Other flowers of the primrose tribe are the cowslip, the poly- anthus, the auricula, the Chinese primrose.… … the primrose, and darker, with a still darker spot upon each div- ision of the corolla. The manner of making the primrose will suggest the modelling of the others. The polyanthus is to be made of bright yellow wax, the auricula generally of white wax. The mealiness of this last may be put on best…

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