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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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BBT. cure whii- ck.nerchant* ie buckleke a godi pleasi^ ker to get FLORENCE HOME NEEDLE-WORK. 45 SOFA PILLOW WITH MOSAIC EMBROIDERY. (Figs. 51 and 52.)Materials for the Embroidery. —Twelve spools of EECorticelli Wash Embroidery Silk (Fig. C), a piece of finebleached linen huckaback eighteen inches square and a No.23 blunt-point tapestry needle. The pillow shown in our engraving is worked with onecolor, No. 743 gold, as shown on the Corticelli color-card •the design is seen in full size in Fig. 51. The space coveredby the embroidery is sixteen inches square, the first rowbeing commenced at the right-hand upper corner, one inchfrom the edge, at point marked A in design, and ending insame maimer at upper left-hand corner. Turn the square
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Fig. 51.—Mosaic Embroidery with Corticelli Silk. Pattern H. Detail of Fig. 52. in the hand and work the second row as shown in engraving.The third row is like the first and the fourth like the second.The whole space is covered in this manner, producing a veryrich appearance. The ruffle which is shown surrounding this pillow matchesthe embroidery and is made of China silk folded double. Asquare of this silk is also required for opposite side of thepillow, unless a second piece of the embroidered linen isprovided. In that case another Mosaic pattern, worked ina different color of silk, would be effective. If China silk is used it will require one and one-half yards,twenty-four inches wide, for the square and the ruffle. Firstcut a piece eighteen inches square from one end of the silk; FL 46 FLORENCE HOME NEEDLE-WORK. then divide the remaining yard into five equal parts, cuttingthe material in the width. Stitch these together, making acontinuous piece nearly ten feet long. Fold this to

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