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How to do beadwork (1904)

White, Mary, 1869-1952 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 98

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62 HOW TO DO BEADWORK from it. The design shown in Fig. 50 is followed. The wings of the butterfly are mostly of light amber, with the lowest beads in the under wings and three near the tip of the upper wings of dark amber. Pale-violet bands run between the two bars of black on the lower wings,… … FlG. 50 inner side with one old-rose bead. Cut -jet beads are used for the body and outline of the wings and dull black for the markings. All of the beads used in working the design are No. 2-0. Nineteen or twenty rows are made after the butterfly is finished, and then the back and front are woven…

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