The Ladies Self Instructor in Millinery and Mantua Making, Embroidery and Appliqué, Canvas-Work, Knitting, Netting, and Crochet-Work (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Ladies Self Instructor in Millinery and Mantua Making, Embroidery and Appliqué, Canvas-Work, Knitting, Netting, and Crochet-Work

The taste for embroidery is daily increasing, and this species of work is not only ornamental but useful. In the following pages we have given instructions in all the most popular and beautiful modes of embroidering and have endeavoured to express ourselves as explicitly as possible.

The patterns which accompany those instructions, may not only be used in embroidering with Floss silks, worsted and chenille, but will be found equally beautiful when worked on muslin with white cotton.

The art of embroidering with floss silk on satin, silk, or other materials, is exceedingly simple; and with but little practice, all of the patterns to be found in this book may be worked in such a manner as to present a neat and beautiful appearance.

To embroider with cotton upon muslin much skil and care are required, but the work when finished is durable and washes well.

Applique is one of the most beautiful, and at the same time one of the easiest modes of embroidering, and may be worked with great rapidity.

Embroidery on lace requires equal skill with embroidery on muslin, but the work when finished is so exquisitely beautiful that it well repays the trouble of the needle woman.

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