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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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Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
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eginning at A and ending at B. The first perpendicularrow begins at C, and work proceeds downward, as shown. In Fig. 37 the first diagonal row begins at A and ends atB; the second row, also diagonal, begins at C and ends atD. If working this pattern with one color of silk, however,it will be better to turn the work in the hand at the end offirst row and return from D to C. partially covering the first row. In Figs. 38, 39 and 44 all the straignt horizontal rows areworked first, beginning at A and ending at B. The firstirregular row begins at C and ends at D ; the second beginsat E and ends at F. FIX 32 FLORENCE HOME NEEDLE-WORK. In Fig. 40 the surface is first gone over with irregularhorizontal rows, as seen, beginning at C and ending at D.The diagonal rows cross these, the first one beginning at Aand ending at B. In Fur. 42 the irregular horizontal rows are worked fromright to left, the first being marked A B in engraving. Thefirst perpendicular row begins at C and proceeds downward.
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Fig. 36.— Mosaic Embroidery with Corticelli Silk. Pattern W. In Fig. 43 the rows are both irregular and horizontal.The first work begins on the short row of figures — that is,the one counting eighteen —at A and ends at B. Turnthe work in the hand and bring needle up at point below E,as seen in engraving, and work as in the first row. Theshort rows of figures being now covered, the alternate rowsare worked in a similar manner, the first beginning at Cand ending at D, and the second commencing at E andterminating at F. . .11 a tll« > H , at Can loners ago strainthan <li: m m i 37.— M samples.observing w^ enlarged iUhich hastako shows ;Pattern. \\ Sunder the ?essin<r rap(1°go0(l WO) *<K. FLORENCE HOME NEEDLE-WORK. 33 Vith i ending^, Winning at sorted hpraying, Tattkkn ^ ad hoi-izoDi , _- that J at B point altera^ inning at Tn Fish. 44 all the straight horizontal rows are worked fromA to B on the short rows of figures. The first irregular rowbeo-ins at C and ends at

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