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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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in m Fig. 43.—Mosaic Embroidery with Corticelli Silk. Pattern CC. rows of lavender (No. 512) and perpendicular rows ofcream white (No. 616). A scarf made of cream-white Mosaic and worked in pat-tern DD (Fig. 44), with straight rows in gold (No. 507)and irregular rows in black, is pretty. Substituting creamwhite (No. 616) for the black embroidery, with same design,you get another pleasing combination. Other arrangements of color, almost without limitation,will be suggested to our readers who consult the color-cardof Corticelli Wash Silk, as seen in Fig. 53. • n 38 FLORENCE HOME NEEDLE-WORK. FLORENCE SILK MOSAIC. (Figs. 31, 32 and 33.)The name Mosaic is given to this new fabric on accountof the small figures which cover the working surface of thecloth. The appearance of these squares is not unlike theMosaic patterns which are often seen in wood, in stone and intapestries. By passing silk thread of the proper size throughthese overshot figures in various directions and combinations,
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Yig. 44. —Mosaic Embroidery with Cokticelli Silk. Pattern DD. many pretty designs are easily produced, having the effectof the most beautiful Mosaic work, and which, by reasonof simplicity and variety, quickly engage the attention ofmodern needle-workers. Florence Silk Mosaic is at present limited to two widths :one, two and three-fourths inches wide (Fig. 32) and theother five inches wide (Fig. 33), made expressly for thefour-in-hand scarf and sold in patterns of suitable length forthat purpose. in0 on ler rial the ithread. fbe colors1 black (sigoftrfsmad rfcelli EEwithout h patterns ofi spools ofBscompletk Silk Coi 9. (his matery well cal loin foundj be fo a eighteen a a conv< v. Florenc igh linen i i Embroi jplete, ; be obtaii . as air rapid and dividual I Jeof our i( ^experiei on tl K. FLORENCE HOME NEEDLE-WORK. 39 son accom irfaceoftI unli; size ti. •lllbill;

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