Strawbridge & Clothier's quarterly . y. N ••• M^m. ** ». We here illustrate a very pretty design fora hand-towel of Russia^-^^———— ^ crash, whichis to be orna-mented withcross - , the de-sign is sosimpleandsoclear that itrequires n odescription,but can beunderstoodby a carefulexamination,and veryeasily copied Thecanvasis laid on thecrash, andthe cross-stitch isworked overit. When fin-ished, thethreads ofthe canvasare drawnaway, andit is edgedwith lace. Another method of toweling embroideryis by means of drawn-work. Select a ratherstrong and coarse linen material;

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Strawbridge & Clothier's quarterly . y. N ••• M^m. ** ». We here illustrate a very pretty design fora hand-towel of Russia^-^^———— ^ crash, whichis to be orna-mented withcross - , the de-sign is sosimpleandsoclear that itrequires n odescription,but can beunderstoodby a carefulexamination,and veryeasily copied Thecanvasis laid on thecrash, andthe cross-stitch isworked overit. When fin-ished, thethreads ofthe canvasare drawnaway, andit is edgedwith lace. Another method of toweling embroideryis by means of drawn-work. Select a ratherstrong and coarse linen material; cut it tothe size required, including a space of twoinches for the fringe. At the end of thisspace make a line of wide-apart button-holestitches; leave an inch of material and drawout threads beyond it to the depth of half-an-inch; leave a quarter-of-an-inch of ma-terial and draw out another half-inch ofthreads. Draw out the threads in thismanner along the four sides of the material;at each corner the only threads left will bethose belonging to

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