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Ladies's work for pleasure and profit (1894)

Heron, Addie E. [from old catalog] · Chicago, The Home manual co · leaf 41

An illustration from Ladies's work for pleasure and profit, 1894, leaf 41
this stitch whichwas used on the old Bayeaux tapestry, and hundreds of years ago, in th^days of the Pharoahs, it was employed in Egyptian embroidery. There ishardly any limit to the usefulness of this simple stitch, and by its use beau-tiful effects are easily obtained, at little expense of time… … STEM STITCH. FIG. 8. First, then, in the list is simple outline stitch, shown in figure 8, then in figure 9 we have cording outline, close outline and twisted outline. Fig. loshows fancy chain outline, and figure 11 double chainoutline. In working outline stitch, if an even lineis required, insert…

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