Archer, Effie Archer · Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 236
atingbranches of fancy work and when used incombination with embroidery it greatlyenriches the piece. Suppose now that you wantedto make a handkerchief and yet did not want totake the time to buttonhole the four edges. Wellthere is nothing more appropriate than hemstitching.The very expensive… … Fig. 173. Hemstitch 207 208 NEEDLECRAFT correct thing to use, but lawn or fine china silk isoften substituted. A third of a yard of linen thirty-six inches widewill make three handkerchiefs. A thread will haveto be drawn so that the squares will be perfectlystraight. A twelve-inch square of linen…
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