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Needle-craft: artistic and practical (1889)

Reed, John Q, Lavin, Eliza M., joint author · New York, The Butterick Publishing Co., Ltd. · leaf 42

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fer use with fin-ger bowls or underdishes of fruit orcake, following asnearly as possiblethe natural colorsof blossoms, fruitsand leaves. Figure No. i onthis page repre-sents a doily allfinished, and de-signs adapted tothe embellishmentof twelve doiliesare included inthe chapter. Af-… … ficulty experiencedin washing doiliesin which thethreads have beenfully drawn, and anopen space left ateach corner. Thethreads are clippedbefore being drawn,so that they willpull out only thelength of the hem-stitched border ateach side as il-lustrated. Thethreads that wouldpull out at the cor- ter…

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