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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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Fig. 17. —Design for Lace Embroidery. Fig. 18 is an oval design, measuring when in full sizetwelve and one-half by eighteen and one-half inches. Onesize only of Honiton braid is used, sixteen detached sectionsbeing placed in the scalloped border. Fig. 19 is a square design, measuring eleven inches eachway, and requiring but one size of Honiton braid. Fig. 20 is a small circular pattern for a doily, with a FLO 18 FLORENCE HOME NEEDLE-WORK. diameter when in full size of seven inches. Three sizes ofHoniton braid are used in each of the butterfly sections. Fig. 21 is also a circular butterfly design, the actual diam-eter being four and three-fourths inches. One size only ofHoniton braid is required. Fig. 22 is a detached form of a large butterfly, measuringwhen in full size about eight inches from tip to tip of wings,four sizes of Honiton braid being used.
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Fig. 18.— Design for Lace Embroidery. In most of these designs the button-hole work on theborders and the edges of each section of Honiton braid isdone with white (No. 614) Corticelli Lace Embroidery Silk,size No. 500, as seen in Fig. A. The outline work is donewith same silk. The conventional floral design in Fig. 18 isworked in satin stitch with Corticelli Filo Silk (Fig. B).The colors as selected from the Corticelli color card (Fig. 53)are Nos. 663, 664 and 665, olive-green, for leaves, and Nos.679, 680 and 681, old pink, for flowers. If brighter pinkbe preferred, select Nos. 637, 638 and 639, or Nos. 572.5,573 and 573.5. :»ithti»-> , fill ena Fl Je beauty i intricate pa any instm ■the illustra >f Hod The first Isled laces, a ^ brougbrecord i W, but os,ter Pilll! ». ■--• The foregoing description of Lace Embroi

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