A treatise on lace-making, embroidery, and needle-work with Irish flax threads (1892)
Bradford, Mary E, Barbour Brothers Company · [New York] : Barbour Brothers Co. · leaf 91
e thus formed. With a littlepractice it is very easy. This filling-in stitch is worked with No. 70Barbours flax thread, 3-cord, 200-yards spools. This is cut inconvenient lengths for working, loosely braided, and wet in coffee totint it like the foundation. The outlining of the leaves, the… … Antique or Oriental Lace. but an even more decided Oriental effect is given the work by usinga little copper and gold tinsel cord for the latter. The 1st star inupper right-hand corner is of red, the star below, in lower right-hand corner, is blue, the darned circle following, red, the 2d star…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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