The ladies' complete guide to crochet, fancy knitting, and needlework

Chapter 47: INITIAL LETTERS IN EMBROIDERY. [Fig. 3.]

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The manual opens with a brief history of needle arts and proceeds to clear, elementary instruction and a dictionary of technical terms, enabling readers to learn stitches and techniques quickly. It provides step-by-step guidance and patterns across crochet, fancy knitting, tatting, embroidery, Berlin wool and point lace, with designs ranging from simple edgings and collars to intricate doilies, nets, bags, scarves, infant caps, and anti-macassars. Illustrative patterns and explanations cover materials, stitches, insertions, and border treatments, aiming to teach both basic execution and more elaborate decorative motifs for domestic handiwork.

INITIAL LETTERS IN EMBROIDERY.
[Fig. 3.]

The C and E here represented are given in a style more suitable for marking household linen and large articles than for embroidering delicate handkerchiefs.

Materials.—Ingrain Turkey red, and white embroidery cotton, No. 70 for linen, and 80 for cambric.

The letters are to be worked in raised satin stitch, with white cotton, and the whole surrounded by a single thread of red, sewed closely over; this throws the letters into strong relief, and has a very chaste and beautiful effect.

In future numbers we shall give other and more decorative styles of letters, for handkerchiefs, &c.