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 257
sthat the design appears to have beenprinted in flat, low colors, on a cottonfabric, and that over the ground thusdiversified are worked knots of silk,which have the effect at a short dis-tance of a stippled drawing on a largescale. The flesh in the figures, and ^34 Woman s Handiwork. some other… … French Knot. an effect of raised work. Bring yourneedle through the material at the ex-act point where the knot should be ;hold your thread of silk or crewel inthe left hand, and twist it once ortwice around the needle ; then pass thepoint of your needle through the ma-terial close to the spot…
Women · Home Economics · Interior decoration
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