The woman's book, dealing practically with the modern conditions of home-life, self-support, education, opportunties, and every-day problems (1894)
New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 255
hite cloth has cross-stitchembroidery in silk, also worked overcanvas. A small square of old ecclesiasticalembroidery, upon real cloth of silver,was bought in Florence recently for agentleman of New York. This hasdetached tulips, roses, and carnations,done with silk in finest tent-stitch.Separately… … \ Cushion-Stitch. thought to have been worked for oneof the popes. These are taken, as in laid embroid-ery, leaving all the silk or wool on theCushion- sur^ace °f the work, withititch.esfor this difference : thatcushion-stitches are of even length,taking up only a thread of the canvas Varieties of…
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