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Identifier: MAB.31962000794895Images
Title: Florence home needle-work
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Nonotuck Silk Company
Subjects: Needlework Lace and lace making Embroidery--Design Fancy work Crocheting Knitting Cross-stitch Macrame Drawn-work Monograms Beadwork Stitches (Sewing) Tatting Netting Openwork Edging Insertion Darning Irish lace
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Fig. 26) being much reduced from the true dimensions,sections of the scarf in actual size are shown in Fig. 31and Fig. 32. As a protection the rawedges at the two ends of theMosaic pattern should beovercast, to prevent ravellingwhile darning. The embroidery (sFigs. 26 and 29) be<at the long end ofscarf, at the upperhand corner, at A;across to the left, end-ing first row at B ; allthe silk is left on thesurface of the fabricexcept at the endingof each row, wherethe needle passesdirectly throughthe cloth, reap-pearing one rowabove, after thework has beenturned in the hand,to begin the second row. It will be observed that the pattern on each edge isincomplete, being one figure shorter than the other patterns;thus you begin and end each row by using two figuresinstead of three, as in the other parts of the row. Be verycareful to keep perfectly straight edges to the embroideredsurface, as this has much to do with neatness in makingup your scarf afterwards; let the needle come up through
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Fig. 31. • Showing Construction of Scarf nearNeck-band. Detail of Fig. 34. 28 FLORENCE HOME NEEDLE-WORK. the cloth in a perpendicular line above where it disappearedand exactly opposite the next figure to be used. In nearly all the patterns for Mosaic Embroidery shownhere the design is limited by the loom to nineteen raisedfigures in each full row, though every alternate row countsbut eighteen raised figures. Most of the patterns begin onthe full row. In Fig. 41 the engraving has been done from the linen material, where — unlike the— the whole surface shows the raised Silk Mosaicures, and a- a a a a a a a m\m a a-a a a a a a a aa a a a a ana a; a; a a a a a a a a a a; aa am.m a a a a a a - a a a a a a a a a aa a ii a a a a a a a a aa a a a a*a a ay a a a a a a a a a ! a a a a a a a a a aa a a a a a a a a a i a a a a a a a a a aa a a a a a a a a a i a a a a a -a a aa^aa a a a a a a a a-a n a: a a a a ra a a a -aa mm a a a a a -a an a a a a a a a a a& a a a a a a a a a a a a a
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