. The ladies' guide to needle work, embroidery, etc. : being a complete guide to all kinds of ladies' fancy work. retty wreath ofleaves and flowers. Flowers dispersed at short distances over the foundation canalso be added if desired. When made on somewhat fine Brussels net, a paperfoundation traced out with the pattern, is required j inside the outline parts the LADIES GUIDE TO NEEDLEWORK. 151 leaves of the sloping hole rows for the foundation are darned backwards and for-wards with thread No. 300 taken double, and the flower parts worked in the roundare to be filled up with chain-stitch; the
. The ladies' guide to needle work, embroidery, etc. : being a complete guide to all kinds of ladies' fancy work. retty wreath ofleaves and flowers. Flowers dispersed at short distances over the foundation canalso be added if desired. When made on somewhat fine Brussels net, a paperfoundation traced out with the pattern, is required j inside the outline parts the LADIES GUIDE TO NEEDLEWORK. 151 leaves of the sloping hole rows for the foundation are darned backwards and for-wards with thread No. 300 taken double, and the flower parts worked in the roundare to be filled up with chain-stitch; the outer sharp outlines, the veins andstalks, are made afterwards with fine glazed thread; in cutting away the net anedge of the same must be left, in order to be able to secure better the outerthread of the darned pattern. Very fine drilled silk for the leaves, and coarse,untwisted silk for the flowers, in place of the thread, give the effect of rich blondlace. White Embroidered Tidy. The charming little tidy shown in miniature in our illustration is exceedinglybeautiful, as will be imagined from this It is not made, as might be supposed, by applying a border of interlaced piecesaround an embroidered centre, but by marking out an interlaced design, workingthe edges with buttonhole stitching, and cutting out the spaces between. To do this, take a half yard of white linen or pique, mark out a circular scal-loped centre, with sprigs of leaves or sprays of small flowers in the centre of eachscallop. These embroider in satin stitch, as also the border around the edge,buttonhole stitching the scallops. Then arrange the crossed-bar border as previ-ously described. The tidy is extremely delicate, and when freshly laundrxed ispeculiarly dainty and elegant looking Corner of ^Design for Tidy, Etc. Another exquisite piece of work of this kind is shown in the little corner-pieceof Fig. 118, which is of tulle and fine Swiss muslin. 152 LADIES GUIDE TO NEEDLEWORK. The design must Ijo
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