The ladies' guide to needle work, embroidery, etc : being a complete guide to all kinds of ladies' fancy work . Fig. 12.—CASE FORBOOK (OPEN). Case for Book. This case may be used to preserve a bookin travelling, or a choicely-bound volume inthe library. The case may be of cloth or hol-land, according to taste. It is ornamentedwith a simple pattern in embroidery in silk ofany color, and is bound with sarcenet back, front, flap, and sides are cut in onepiece, and the sides are joined to the case must be cut to the size of the book for which it is intended. It is fastened with
The ladies' guide to needle work, embroidery, etc : being a complete guide to all kinds of ladies' fancy work . Fig. 12.—CASE FORBOOK (OPEN). Case for Book. This case may be used to preserve a bookin travelling, or a choicely-bound volume inthe library. The case may be of cloth or hol-land, according to taste. It is ornamentedwith a simple pattern in embroidery in silk ofany color, and is bound with sarcenet back, front, flap, and sides are cut in onepiece, and the sides are joined to the case must be cut to the size of the book for which it is intended. It is fastened with a band of elastic, and straps are puton to carry it Fig. 13.—CASE FOR BOOK (closed). Ticking Embroidery is another fashionable freak. The material which is used for bedding, wouldhave been, one might suppose, the last thing to form the groundwork of ladiesfancy work, but the effect is excellent. Coarse colored netting silk and gold braidare all that is needed besides the ticking to embroider a pair of slippers which will ladies guide to needlework. 11 have the effect of Moorish work. Between the stripes of the ticking a coral stitchmust he worked, alternating with herring-hone stitch, the gold braid being run onbetween the black stripes of the ticking with very tine gold-colored silk. Beingvery easy and inexpensive, this is a work in which even a little girl could soonproduce a pair of slippers handsomer than wool work, and wearing equally well. The celebrated authoress Jean Ingelow contributes to an English magazine thefollowing description of some specimens of needlework, which will give my read-ers some useful hints and instructio
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