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 88
eat art isto make the edges of the stitches very even, presentingclear, regular, scallops. A bad worker makes them misera-bly jagged, so that it is difficult to cut the muslin away after-wards. This is distinguished from ordinary scallops bybeing each large one composed of a succession of… … Scallops, may be sharp or pointed. In either case, theyare threaded, raised, and worked over like the rose scallops,observe, that the greater the width of any scallop, in itswidest part, the more it should be raised. Eyelet-hole, is any small round hole, whether sewed orbuttonholed. Chtxese…
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