Pins and pincushions . ps a needle for the very finestwork, should have been used. But it is of coursetrue that the labour with a pin alone would be verygreat; we must therefore admit the possibility of someother kind of tool being utilised. The pins may havebeen inserted into a handle ; several pins might beused in this way, which would considerably lessen thelabour. Plate I., represented in our Frontispiece, mightwell have been done from the directions given in TheToung Ladies^ Book. It is a fine specimen of pin-pricking. The ladys face, hands, and hair are painted,as well as the back of the
Pins and pincushions . ps a needle for the very finestwork, should have been used. But it is of coursetrue that the labour with a pin alone would be verygreat; we must therefore admit the possibility of someother kind of tool being utilised. The pins may havebeen inserted into a handle ; several pins might beused in this way, which would considerably lessen thelabour. Plate I., represented in our Frontispiece, mightwell have been done from the directions given in TheToung Ladies^ Book. It is a fine specimen of pin-pricking. The ladys face, hands, and hair are painted,as well as the back of the chair on which she isseated, and the ribbons and feathers which flutterround as though stirred by some gentle breeze. Itis a clever picture, full of life, and so realistic we seemactually to see the ladys fingers pass swiftly over theharp-strings, and to hear the sound of the music shemakes. The dress is entirely pin-prickt, and the PLATE XVII rin-prickt Picture. ( t7i>o hu/id red yean old. PLATE XVIII. Piii-prickt Iicture (ICnglish).About /zvo /ill lid red years old. PIN-PRICKT PICTURES 115 folds so well expressed in broad masses and fine lines,we do not miss the pencil shading or the deep shadowsmade with paint and brush that usually help to makea picture. The pricks express everything; is not thisvery wonderful ? If our readers have read the direc-tions given in The l^oung Ladies* Book, and will nowexamine this picture closely, they will see for them-selves that by marking out the prominent folds ofthe dress with rather larger pricks from the frontto the back of the picture, and then turning it roundand placing it face downwards, and filling up all thoseparts between the prominent lines with small pricksput very close together from the back to the front, thefolds will then stand out, making their own XVII. and XVIII. are not so finely prickt asPlate I., and the design and painting of the bordersis much less finished, but they are probably olde
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