Needles and brushes, and how to use them; a manual of fancy work (1887)
Eyre, Jane, active 19th century · Chicago and New York, Belford, Clarke & co. · leaf 25
AND HOW TO USE THEM 21 stones, grasses, leaves, flowers, and the stalks of the cactus in gold, shading lightly with black or copper color. Make the thorns of fine strokes of copper color, and then worked with a loose lying stitch of moss green filoselle or floss. Gold thread can also be used with… … Fig. 44. they are painted in silver and veined with stitches of green. The flowers are worked with two shades of dark red in a close satin stitch, the calices being in white or yellow. The bird’s beak is painted in gold, as also are the upper part of the wings, the lower feathers being painted in…
Fancy work · Decorative arts · Needlework · Handicraft
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
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