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
with yellow silk onlinen, with solid chain-stitch embroid-ery representing men and animals. A Portuguese bed-cover of the samestyle and period is owned by a gentle-man of New York. This is a curiousand beautiful example of chain-stitchembroidery, in maize silk upon cotton,which well merits the… … C ham-Stitch. queens head andshoulders, the risingsun and a crescentmoon on either sideof her. Forming a wide border, andfilling up every portion of the ground,are the following designs : warriors,men storming a castle, grotesques withheads of weasels riding upon tigers andblowing horns ; hunting…
Women · Home Economics · Interior decoration
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