Paret, Anna Parmly, [from old catalog] ed · New York and London. Harper & brothers · leaf 273
you have 256 ^ EMBROIDERY FOR GIRLS drawn over all the lines, blow off the powder, and rap thelinen smartly on the back two or three times to get thor-oughly rid of the charcoal. If you know how to draw,so much the better; trust your eye, and do away withtracings altogether. The coarse pictures of… … little figures (Fig. 8) in bright-colored silks. You can findsuch designs in Japanese drawing-books for sale at theJapanese shops, on advertisement cards, or on fans. The New England Stitch The Pilgrim women who sailed in the Mayflower broughtwith them the very old stitch, a magnified view of which…
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