How to amuse yourself and others : the American girl's handy book (1887)
Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920 · New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 405
features were made as true as if drawn onpaper with a pencil. For filling in the solid colors take the common runningstitch, but make the stitches long on the right side of the em-broidery and very shoft on the wrong side, so as to give theappearance ofthe coloredfabric copied.Use filo-silk; and… … Fig. 304.—Outline Stitch. HEM-STITCHING. Decide upon the width of the hem and the width of thespace for drawn threads ; carefully draw out the thread at one Old-Fashioned Needle-work. 389
