Archer, Effie Archer · Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 231
s 202 NEEDLECRAFT that they be neatly done or the embroidery will notshow to its best advantage. Hedebo embroidery is in no way connected withapplique work, but like the latter it is a branch ofneedlework that few people in America understand.Without exception it is the most elaborate form ofwhite… … Fig. 169. An elaborate design in Hedebo Hedebo is worked on a jBnely woven linen. Thedesign is stamped directly on the material. Athread of D.M.C. No. 25 or spool linen thread out-lines the figures. Within the design, the linen is cut NEEDLECRAFT 203 one eighth of an inch from the running…
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