The Dictionary of Needlework
LIBRARY ^tsSSACHt; ^^ -^^ • J895 I ItVc^Cy*cy i/&(://^ n^ / L^^ Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Boston Library Consortium IVIember Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/dictionaryofneed02caul THE DICTIONARY OF NEEDLEWORK. APPLIQUE UPON LINEN CLOTH APPLIQUE. DEDICATED TO H.R.H. PRINCESS LOUISE, MARCHIONESS OF LORNE. THE Dic;tioi];?^y of I^eedle!ho^^, ENOYCLOPiEDIA OE ARTISTIC, PLAIN, AND EANCY NEEDLEWORK, DEALING FULLY "WITH THE DETAILS OF ALL THE STITCHES EMPLOYED, THE METHOD OF "WORKING, THE MATERIALS USED, THE MEANING OF TECHNICAL TERMS, AND, "WHERE NECESSARY. TRACING THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE VARIOUS "WORKS DESCRIBED. ILLUSTRATED WITH UPWARDS OF 1200 WOOD ENG-RAYINGS, AND COLOURED PLATES. PLAIN SE"WING, TEXTILES, DRESSMAKING, APPLIANCES, AND TERMS, By S. E. a. CAULEEILD, Author of "Skic iVtjrs»i(7 at Home," "Desmond," "Avencle," and Papers on Needlework in "The Queen," "Girl's Own Paper "Cassell's Domestic Dictionary," iDc. CHURCH EMBROIDERY, LACE, AND ORNAMENTAL NEEDLEWORK, By blanche C. SAWARD, Author of "'•Church Festiva^l Decorations," and Papers on Fancy and Art Work in ''The Bazaar," "Artistic Aimcsements," "Girl's Own Paper," ii:c. Division II.— Cre to Emb. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: A. W. COWAN, 30 AND 31, NEW BRIDGE STREET, LUDGATE CIRCUS. 'A \^'0^ ^' ... ,^\ STRAND LONDON : PRINTED BY A. BRADLEY, 170, ^./^- c^9V^ A^A^'f THE DICTIONARY OF NEEDLEWORK. 97 Knots for the centre of flowers, as tliey add to their and taste of that period. The great merit of the work beauty. When the centre of a flower is as large as that and the reason of its revival lies in the capability it has of seen in a sunflower, either work the whole with French expressing the thought of the worker, and its power of Knots, or lay down a piece of velvet of the right shade and breaking through the trammels of that mechanical copy- work sparingly over it French Knots or lines of Crewel ing and counting which lowers most embroidery to mere Stitch.
[Show full text]