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 261
idery. An interesting specimen of ancientneedlework, owned by the Marchionessof Bute, is an altar-cloth, said to beLutheran, worked entirely in fine handstem-stitch, in red silk, on a cotton oi-lmen ground. It is an excellent exam-ple of this style of embroidery, and asbeautiful as rare.… … ^-JJUlfll Satin-Stitch. The superb Chinese embroideries, ofwhich examples have been recentlysold for a song, by a great importinghouse overstocked with small squaresand table covers in rather unmanage-able shades of dark blue, which are the PlumetiSj Button-holc-Stitch and the French Knot. 233 same…
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