INDEX
- American cloth, [143]
- Antique hemstitch, [73]
- Antique seam, [96]
- Applied work, [80]
- Arrow-head filling, [31]
- Art and craft, [5]
- Art canvas, [177]
- Background, open, [105]
- Backgrounds, [25], [29], [82], [104]
- Back stitching, [152]
- Bag, a useful, [153]
- Bag, work, [169]
- Bags, [132]
- Balance, [23]
- Bands, needle-woven, [105]
- Basket, Japanese, [169]
- Basket or stroke stitch, [71]
- Basket pattern, [33], [70]
- Basket stitch, [67]
- to work, [71]
- Baskets, [132]
- Beads, [19], [28]
- Blanket, Scottish, [9]
- Blanket stitch, to work, [58]
- Bokhara embroideries, [17]
- Border, [129]
- diapered, [60]
- geometrical, [124]
- interlacing, [151]
- pattern, [19]
- stitch, [151]
- vandyke, [30]
- Braid hat band, [133]
- Braid, Honiton, [144]
- Braid stitch, [53]
- Braids, [28], [76], [89], [119]
- Braids, hand-made, [28], [117]
- Brocade, [16]
- Building up of the pattern, [6]
- Bullion knots, [83]
- Bullion stitch, [84]
- Button-hole stitches, [56]
- bars, [86]
- crossed, [58]
- double, [61]
- edging, [150]
- filling of a space, [59]
- loops, open, [139]
- pyramid, [107]
- rings, [122]
- Button-hole stitch, flowers in, [59]
- Button-hole stitch, leaves in, [61]
- Buttons, [28]
- Buttons, indestructible, [123]
- Cable chain, [52]
- Cable chain, to work, [52]
- Canvas, [8], [67], [129], [131], [132], [177]
- Canvas stitches, [131]
- Carbon paper, [173]
- Carpet chenilles, [10]
- Carrick bend, [125]
- Celtic canvas, [129]
- Central fillings, [122]
- Chain stitch, [45], [79], [126], [143]
- in two colours, [47]
- to work, [46]
- twisted, [45]
- Chenilles, carpet, [10]
- Chequered fern stitch, [75]
- Chequered pattern, [70], [101]
- Chequered pattern, to work, [70]
- Chequers, [29]
- Chinese knot, [126]
- Circles, [22], [79]
- Colour, [12-17]
- Colour, juxtaposition of, [16]
- Colour, restful, [14]
- Colour scheme, [6], [80]
- Colours, six bright, [15]
- Colours, warm, [13]
- Common sense, [6]
- Construction, [6], [20]
- Cool colours, [14]
- Cope, Jesse, [82]
- Cope, Syon, [82]
- Coptic work, [40]
- Coral stitch, [48]
- Cords, [66]
- Cords, hand-made, [27]
- Corners, [20]
- Cosy cover, [112]
- Cot coverlet, [138]
- Couching, [68], [79]
- Couching, ancient method of, [81]
- Crash, Russian, [9], [37]
- Cretan stitch, [51]
- Cretonne, [16]
- Crochet, [69], [155]
- a useful cord, [161]
- chain slip-knot, [156]
- double stitch, [157]
- dropping picots, [164]
- flowers, [158]
- hooks, [78], [158]
- insertion, an, [166]
- lace picots, [164]
- ladder insertion, [157]
- leaves, [160]
- long treble stitch, [157]
- mesh, [165]
- picots, [163], [165]
- plain picots, [164]
- raffia, [167]
- single stitch, [156]
- treble stitch, [157]
- tricot, [162]
- two-chain picots, [164]
- Crossed button-hole, [58]
- Cross stitch, [101], [130], [131]
- Cross stitch, Italian, [130]
- Curtain, part of a, [55]
- Curving lines, [23]
- Cushion case, [170]
- Cut work, [136]
- Damask, [8]
- Damask darning, [32]
- Darning patterns, [29]
- Darning, single, [33]
- Darning stitches, [29], [106]
- Darns, latchet, [66], [170]
- Decorative back stitch, [61]
- Decorative initials, [111]
- Design, [21]
- Design, habit of, [5]
- Design, transferring the, [172]
- Designs, interlacing, [90], [127]
- Diagonal filling, [34]
- Diagonal lines, [21], [79]
- Diapered border, [60]
- Dominant colour, [16]
- Double button-hole, [61]
- Double-net stitch, [144]
- Drawing, [5]
- Drawn work, Italian, [137]
- Eastern embroiderers, [69]
- Ecclesiastical embroideries, [a]1]
- Edgings, [9], [27], [122], [149]
- Embroiderers, Eastern, [69]
- Embroideries, Bokhara, [17]
- Embroideries, ecclesiastical, [a]1]
- Embroideries, peasant, [136], [140]
- Embroideries, washing woollen, [175]
- Embroidery, Hedebo, [137]
- Embroidery, Rhodian, [35], [36], [140]
- Embroidery, Richelieu, [143]
- Embroidery threads, linen floss, [177]
- Embroidery, white, [83]
- Emery cushion, [12]
- Eyelet holes, [140]
- Faggoting, [93]
- Fern stitch, [74]
- Filet background, [104]
- Filet pattern, [77]
- Fillings, [29]
- arrow-head, [31]
- central, [122]
- diagonal, [34]
- honeycomb, [62]
- in squares, [35]
- leaf, [152]
- openwork, [29], [144]
- pyramid, [30]
- star, [31]
- Fingering wools, [177]
- Finishing touches, [6], [115]
- Finishings, [26]
- Fishbone, [71]
- Fishbone stitch, [50]
- Fitments, [26], [27]
- Flat knot, a, [116]
- Flowered hat band, [129]
- Flowers in button-hole stitch, [59]
- Fork-pin insertion, [99]
- Foundation net, [144]
- Frames, [11], [79]
- French knots, [28], [82]
- French tape, [75]
- Fringe, knotted, [115]
- Fringe, to prepare a, [114]
- Fringes, [28], [66], [68], [114]
- Galoon, [65], [66], [83]
- Galoons and gimps, washing, [28]
- Geometrical border, [124]
- Geometrical forms, [5], [19]
- German linen work, [111]
- Gimp, [117]
- Goblin stitch, [132]
- Good filling, a, [34]
- Good taste, [6]
- Greenhouse shading, [8]
- Groundings, open, [34]
- Habit of design, [5]
- Hand-made braids, [28], [117]
- Hand-made cords, [27]
- Harmony, [24]
- Hat bands, [129]
- Hedebo embroidery, [137]
- Hems, openwork, [72]
- Hemstitch, antique, [73]
- Hemstitching, method of, [115]
- Herring-bone, [65]
- Herring-bone foundation, [110]
- Herring-bone stitch, [94]
- Hints about materials, practical, [176]
- Hints, useful, [172]
- Honeycomb filling, [62]
- Honeycomb, to work, [63]
- Honiton braid, [144]
- Huckaback, [8]
- Indestructible buttons, [123]
- Indian work, [90]
- Individuality, [26]
- Initials, decorative, [111]
- Insertion stitches, [133]
- pyramid, [107]
- simple, [103]
- vandyke, [73]
- Interlacing border, [151]
- Interlacing designs, [90], [127]
- Interlacing knots, [91]
- Interlacing stitch, [108]
- Isolated pyramids, [107]
- Italian cross stitch, [130]
- Italian drawn work, [137]
- Japanese basket, [169]
- Jesse Cope, [82]
- Joining of selvedges, [97]
- Juxtaposition of colour, [16]
- Knot, a flat, [116]
- Knot work, [123]
- Knots, [83], [126], [127]
- Knots, French, [28], [82];
- netting knot, [148];
- ornamental knot, [123];
- reef knot, [125];
- weaver's knot, [124]
- Knotted fringe, [115]
- Lace edge, [78]
- Lace-making, [135]
- Lace pillow-cushion, to make a, [118]
- Lace stitch, simple, [112]
- Lace stitches, [144]
- Point d'Alencon, [95]
- Point de Bruxelles, [144]
- Point de Reprise, [76], [106], [107]
- Point de Sorrento, [145]
- Point de Venise, [153]
- Point rentré et retiré, [81]
- Point Turc, [149]
- Laces, [122]
- Laces, needle-point, [135], [137]
- Lacis, [136]
- Ladder hemstitch, [72]
- Ladder stitch, [45]
- Laid stitches, [70], [171]
- Laid work, [67], [69]
- Latchet darns, [66], [170]
- Latchets of wool, [27]
- Leaf fillings, [152]
- Leaves, [130]
- Leaves in button-hole stitch, [61]
- Line stitch, [67]
- Linen floss embroidery threads, [177]
- Linen work, German, [111]
- Linens, [7]
- Lines, [20]
- Lines, curving, [23]
- Lines, diagonal, [21], [79]
- Lines, straight, [5], [19], [22], [23], [29]
- Link stitch, [51]
- Link stitch, to work, [52]
- Linked chain, [46]
- Loop stitch, [98]
- Loop stitch border, [75]
- Luncheon set, [86]
- Macramé, [116]
- Masses, [20]
- Material, practical hints about, [176]
- Materials, [7]
- Mesh, [121]
- Metal rings, [123]
- Mexican stitch, [63]
- Mexican stitch, to work, [63]
- Mount-mellick work, [85]
- Needle-made picots, [121]
- Needle-point laces, [135], [137]
- Needle-weaving, [28], [67], [87], [101]
- Needle-weaving, pattern in, [18]
- Needle-weaving, reversible, [103]
- Needle-woven bands, [105]
- Needles, [10]
- Net stitch, [71]
- Netting knot, [148]
- Nightdress case in blue and white, [127]
- Oddments, remnants and, [7]
- Open background, [105]
- Open button-hole loops, [139]
- Open groundings, [34]
- Openwork fillings, [29], [144]
- Openwork hems, [72]
- Orange, [14]
- Oriental stitch, [42], [51], [65]
- Originality, [29]
- Ornamental knot, [123]
- Oversewing, [101]
- Outline stitch, [143]
- Pattern book, venetian, [91]
- Pattern, building up of the, [6]
- Pattern in needle-weaving, [18]
- Pattern making, [5]
- Pattern, primitive, [18], [106]
- Pattern, wave, [32]
- Patterns, [29], [70], [137]
- Peasant embroideries, [136], [140]
- Persian quilting, [46]
- Persian work, [90]
- Personality of the worker, [4]
- Petal or loop stitch, [48]
- Petit point, [132]
- Picot, Venetian, [149]
- Picots, [149]
- Picots in bullion stitch, [84]
- Picots, needle-made, [121]
- Plaited stitch, [71]
- Portière, a, [59]
- Pouncing, [172]
- Primitive pattern, [18], [106]
- Principle of repetition, [20]
- Principles of colour, [12]
- "Punch work," [141]
- to work, [142]
- Punto a gruppo, [116]
- Pyramids, [123]
- filling, [30]
- insertion, [107]
- isolated, [139]
- Quilting, Persian, [46]
- Raised stitchery, [94]
- Reef knot, [125]
- Remnants and oddments, [7]
- Repetition, principle of, [12]
- Restful colour, [14]
- Reticella, [136]
- Reversible back stitch, [62]
- Reversible needle-weaving, [103]
- Rhodian embroidery, [35], [36], [140]
- Ribbon, velvet, [96]
- Richelieu embroidery, [143]
- Richelieu work, [77]
- Ring stick, [122]
- Rings, [123]
- Rings, metal, [123]
- Rope stitch, [46]
- Rosettes, [108]
- Roumanian stitch, [73]
- Rugs, [133]
- Runner, table, [63]
- Russian crash, [9], [37]
- Russian stitch, [96]
- Satin stitch, [25], [67], [143]
- Seam, antique, [96]
- Selvedges, joining of, [97]
- Scissors, [11]
- Scottish blanket, [9]
- Sideboard cloth, [67]
- Silks, [10]
- Simple insertions, [103]
- Simple lace stitch, [112]
- Simplicity, [23]
- Single darning, [33]
- Six bright colours, [15]
- Snail-trail, [48]
- Snail-trail, method of working, [48]
- Spaces, value of, [20]
- Split stitch, [47]
- Square stitch, [35], [36], [68]
- Square stitch in slanting lines, [37]
- Star-filling, [31]
- Stitches, antique hem, [73];
- arrangement of, [134];
- back, [152];
- basket or stroke, [71];
- blanket, [58];
- border, [151];
- braid, [53];
- bullion, [84];
- button-hole, [56];
- canvas, [131];
- chain, [45], [79], [126], [143];
- chequered fern, [75];
- coral, [48];
- Cretan, [51];
- decorative back, [61];
- double-net, [144];
- fern, [74];
- fish-bone, [50];
- goblin, [132];
- herring-bone, [94];
- insertion, [133];
- interlacing, [108];
- Italian cross, [137];
- lace, [112];
- ladder hem, [72];
- ladder, [45];
- laid, [70], [171];
- line, [67];
- link, [51];
- loop, [98];
- Mexican, [63];
- net, [71];
- Oriental, [42], [51], [65];
- outline, [143];
- petal or loop, [48];
- plaited, [71];
- raised, [94];
- reversible back, [62];
- rope, [46];
- Roumanian, [73];
- Russian [9], [37];
- satin, [25], [67], [143];
- simple lace, [112];
- split, [47];
- square, [35], [36], [68];
- square stitch in slanting lines, [37];
- surface, [151], [152];
- tacking, [25], [66];
- tailor's button, [58];
- tambour, [45];
- tent, [130], [132];
- unity of, [24];
- weaving, [128].
- Stitchery, [6], [24]
- Straight lines, [5], [19], [22], [23], [29]
- Stretching, [173]
- Stroke stitch, basket or, [71]
- Surface stitches, [151], [152]
- Syon Cope, [82]
- Table mat of white linen, [75]
- Table runner, [63]
- Tacking stitch, [25], [66]
- Tailor's button stitch, [58]
- Tambour stitch, [45]
- Tape, French, [28], [82]
- Tapestry-weaving, [103]
- Tassels, [28], [66]
- Tassels, simple, [120]
- Technique, [24]
- Tent stitch, [130], [132]
- Tête de Bœuf, [52]
- Tête de Bœuf, to work, [52]
- Thimble, [11]
- Threads, [9]
- Toile cirée, [76], [93]
- Transferring the design, [172]
- Treatment, [26]
- Twisted chain, [45]
- Unity of stitch, [24]
- Value of spaces, [20]
- Vandyke border, [30]
- Vandyke insertion, [73]
- Veining, [95]
- Venetian pattern book, [91]
- Venetian picot, [149]
- Velvet, [79], [131]
- Velvet ribbon, [96]
- Warm colours, [13]
- Washing galoons and gimps, [28]
- Washing woollen embroideries, [175]
- Wave pattern, [32]
- Weaver's knot, [124]
- Weaving, [77]
- Weaving stitch, [128]
- Weft threads, [41]
- White embroidery, [83]
- White ground, [15]
- White work, washing, [175]
- Wool, latchets of, [27]
- Woollen embroideries, washing, [175]
- Wools, [9]
- Wools, fingering, [177]
- Work bag, [169]
- Worker, personality of the, [4]
- Working of tambour stitch, [46]
- Woven textures, [9]
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Transcriber’s Notes:
Variations in spelling and hyphenation are retained.
Perceived typographical errors have been changed.