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 262
stitch seemsuninteresting to the worker of to-day. Plumetis is the variety of satin-stitchknown to us in French work on cottonor linen textiles. It is done by passingthe thread evenly from one outline ofthe pattern to the other, as in the ac-companying sketch. Blanket, or button-hole-stitch, should… … Blanket-Stitch. long loop with the five stitches follow-ing, for finishing the edge of someembroideries. Button-hole-stitch appears to greatadvantage in a table-cover of creamlinen, where old Spanish embroideryis edged by a border of randa orSpanish darned netting. A pattern ofscrolls worked in…
Women · Home Economics · Interior decoration
Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
