Jacobean crewel work and traditional designs (1900)
Penelope · Manchester, Briggs · leaf 36
tegories.They are still conventionalized, and the embroiderers neednot worry if they do not appear botanically correct. Embroidered on stone-coloured satin with (3D WashingFiloselle using four strands in satin and long and short stitchthe result is very beautiful. Several greens have been used on… … Some leaves are worked with a mixture of two threads,shade 262, and one of 256. Two of the leaves near the middleare definitely blue in tone, 256. A tulip appears in shades, 226 pink, 1453 yellow, with astitch or two of 1682, and some green 1514. Dahlia-like blooms are worked in 252, 1454, 1457…
Embroidery, English
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