Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information : comprising complete and practical instructions on the house and its furniture, artistic decoration economy, toilet, children, etiquette, domestic and fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery, and all other household matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated (1879)
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 874
icles ofhousehold and personalutility. The inferiority of the patternshas been the worm at the core ofBerlin wool-work ever since its in-troduction. Only geometricaldesigns can be perfectly renderedby the usual cross stitch. Tentstitch, on very fine materials, canbe so used as to render curves and… … PLUSH STITCH. 822 Fancy Needlework. CHAPTER XCVIII. CREWEL WORK. Art Needlework—Our Grandmothers—Work in the Present Day. 1492. THIS SUBJECT HAVING been fully treated elsewhere we omitits consideration here, only remarking that it is, like many otherfashions of the day, only a revival of a former…
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