History of the town of Sunderland, Mass., which originally embraced within its limits the present fowns of Montague and Leverett . needlework were all designed and embroidered by thesame women. Later generations devised different village weaver wove a diamond diaper material, notwholly of the first class flax, but still flexible and upon this was of tufts and knots, giving higherrelief. In the days when buttons were clumsy and rough in finish,some ingenious woman devised a button made of thread cir-cling round and round a point and held in circular shape byfine need
History of the town of Sunderland, Mass., which originally embraced within its limits the present fowns of Montague and Leverett . needlework were all designed and embroidered by thesame women. Later generations devised different village weaver wove a diamond diaper material, notwholly of the first class flax, but still flexible and upon this was of tufts and knots, giving higherrelief. In the days when buttons were clumsy and rough in finish,some ingenious woman devised a button made of thread cir-cling round and round a point and held in circular shape byfine needle stitches. This ingenious device was modifiedto make elaborate flowers to be applied to the surface ofcounter-panes made from 1790 to 1820. It gave a high re-lief to the work, and in patterns imitating heavy lace wereextremely effective. Succeeding this applique work formed of thread-madebuttons and knots, was a variety of drawn work, dependentupon pulled-out threads, and completed by means of rever-ing and hem-stitching. Less artistic taste and less original-ity was required in this sort of fancy work, and it was }. A White Bedspread which belonged to the trousseau of Abigail (Montague iStockbridge. designed by MarthaWarner and embroidered by Belinda Montague. APPENDIX. 681 About this time working in lace was a widely practisedhandiwork. As Mechlin and old English thread-lace wererare and costly, and as every woman must have a veil tocomplete her head attire, the accomplishment of filling in aplain net lace with a variety of minute stitches, thereby dot-ting it with tiny figures, spread over the entire land. Smith wore a black lace veil on Sundays whichwas responsible for many heart burnings, and much inatten-tion to the devotional service. Several of the Warner girlsfailed to rival it, from the cost of materials, but the daugh-ters of Deacon Quartus Smith, Wealthy and Rosanna,reached to the same elevated plane, and embroidered veilsno longer ranked a
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