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Godey's lady's book (1840)

Philadelphia, Pa. : L.A. Godey · leaf 444

An illustration from Godey's lady's book, 1840, leaf 444
Materials.—No. 19 French Penelope canvas, with No.2 crystal or alabaster beads, and rich green or crimsonfiloselle. The beads to be put on with crochet cotton,No. 16. This design will be found to look very rich,either worked in beads, with a ground of filo- selle, or with a ground of beads, and… … The foundation of this bag is a strip of paste-board, three inches wide, and about eighteeninches long. This must be formed into a circleand surrounded with a wire at each edge, afterwhich a silk covering must be stretched over itand tacked down over both the upper andlower rims. The decoration…

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