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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 63

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uality. 62 barbours prize needle-work: series. Make a i^-inch hem; draw 6 threads, or more, according toquality of linen. To hemstitch, throw the thread as for a button-hole st, take up 4 or 6 threads, st through 2 threads down straightto draw it tight. Draw threads, y2 inch wide, and y2 inch from… … BBBgggEBEE Mexican Border. inches, leave y2 inch, repeat from *, and draw y2 inch. A descrip-tion of drawn-work seems quite superfluous, as it is almost univer-sally copied from engravings. This design was copied from a table-cover bought from a Mexican, and is very effective. DOILY, IN DRAWN-WORK…

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