. Fancy work for pleasure and profit. n in the illustra-tion, but it should always be used whengold thread is laid as an unornamentedspray. Work the small half fleur-de-lis figures in long stitch with colorings are alternately crimson and green; the crimson shading to^ink, the green from dark to light. Surround them with black knitting silk,and with branching fibers of gold thread and floss. The small circles areformed of spangles, four to each circle, caught down with green or red pursettilk. Work the border upon a band of rep silk of a darker color than isused for the body of the
. Fancy work for pleasure and profit. n in the illustra-tion, but it should always be used whengold thread is laid as an unornamentedspray. Work the small half fleur-de-lis figures in long stitch with colorings are alternately crimson and green; the crimson shading to^ink, the green from dark to light. Surround them with black knitting silk,and with branching fibers of gold thread and floss. The small circles areformed of spangles, four to each circle, caught down with green or red pursettilk. Work the border upon a band of rep silk of a darker color than isused for the body of the curtain or frontal. The wheels or stars on the bor-der should be worked with gold thread or yellow purse silk, caught downwith black silk. The leaves are worked with shades of blue in long stitch,and the stems and tendrils are formed of gold cord. Add small spangleswhere shown in the design. The three shades of blue, green and rose color used should be perfectlydistinct from each other, and not selected as in ordinary embroidery, so. FIG. 128. CHURCH AND BULLION EMBROIDERIES. 12; Miat one shade blends imperceptibly into the other; for although harmon-izing, each shade must be distinct from the one above and below it. Figure- 129 is another valuable working detail. It should be carriedout as follows: Lay gold cord or thread inwaved lines, as at a A A a, and catch these downwith even rows of purse silk. Lay down thehead of the seed pod with gold thread, as at A,but the lines must here be straight. Fill thestalk, B B B, with green floss of three distinctshades; work in long stitch. The leaves areof the same, except the veins, e e, which areof yellow floss; d d, representing the soft hairson the stalk is done with green floss; the cen-ter of seed pod, k, work with two shades ofpinky red floss, in upright lines and surroundwith a silk cord; H H, work with silver threadtwisted around it and caught down with paleblue silk; in the inside of the cord place a nar-row black cord, and cat
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