The dictionary of needlework : an encyclopaedia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework dealing fully with the details of all the stitches employed, the method of working, the materials used, the meaning of technical terms, and, where necessary, tracing the origin and history of the various works described . Detail A. Detail Fig. 151. Detail Out Wool Wore. light fibres of different coloured wool that form the mark-ings in Details A and B. Comb these out before they arelaid on the petal, and fix them to their places with thepoints of scissors, not with the hands. Make the eye ofth
The dictionary of needlework : an encyclopaedia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework dealing fully with the details of all the stitches employed, the method of working, the materials used, the meaning of technical terms, and, where necessary, tracing the origin and history of the various works described . Detail A. Detail Fig. 151. Detail Out Wool Wore. light fibres of different coloured wool that form the mark-ings in Details A and B. Comb these out before they arelaid on the petal, and fix them to their places with thepoints of scissors, not with the hands. Make the eye ofthe pansy and the dark outside lines of Detail A with piecesof velvet cut to shape and caught down with long stitchesof coloured silk, but gum the edges of the velvet intoposition. As each petal is made, crook the end of the wiresupporting it, and hang it up by this crook to dry; whenall are finished, combine the separate wires, cover themwith green wool, and finish off the back of the flowerquite neatly, to present the appearance of Detail C. Thecolours of Detail A are a foundation of white wool withdark ruby velvet forming centre spots and edges, and lightbits of combed out ruby wool put on the petals, to shadethe velvet into the white in the centre of flower and atthe edge. The silks used are yellow purse silk. Detail Bh
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