The lady's manual of fancy work : a complete instructor in every variety of ornamental needle-work : including applique... (1859)
Pullan, Mrs. (Matilda Marian) · New York : Dick & Fitzgerald · leaf 26
e ; and it is better that they be a little toosmall, than too large for the canvas; so that if it happensthat some one shade in a set is larger than the rest, the can-vas should be tried with them. A vast variety of articles are now ornamented entirely inbead-work. The tops of small occasional… … The stitch used is always tent, from one hole to the next,or the next but one, diagonally upwards. I use EvansMecklenburg threads to sew them on, on account of thestrength required to keep them in place. Sometimes silksof the colors of the beads are used; but I prefer thread.The chief difficulty of…
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