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 879
needle is drawn through the material in aslanting direction. Illustration 32 shows open stitch or eyelet holes, worked in overcast stitch, akind of embroidery used only in round or long patterns. Trace first the outline ofthe hole, cut away a small round piece of mate-rial, not too close to the… … 32. EYELET HOLES. 1495. THIS COMPLETES THE list ofstitches used in embroidery of the kindcalled Broderie Anglaise, which is nowrarely worked by ladies, owing to thecheapness and excellence of the Madeirawork now brought into this country in such quantities, and to the mar-vellously inexpensive…
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