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Godey's lady's book (1840)

Philadelphia, Pa. : L.A. Godey · leaf 164

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bugles, use the No. 20 cottondoubled. Begin at the left handside of leaf, at tbe point, and sewon a row of bugles, which should be sewed onin that manner that, when looking on thewrong side, the cotton shall lie in a slantingdirection. When one row is finished, slip theneedle under the canvas,… … of wood, then gum it on the back, and, whendry, cut round the outline which was overcast;sew the two stems together, as in engraving. For the Circle to which the Leaves are tobe Sewed.—Cut a circle in stiff card-board, thesize of the bottom of the hyacinth-glass ; coverit with colored cambric, just…

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