14.—EMBROIDERY IN LAMÉ OF VELVET AND GOLD.
Fix your material in a frame. Tack over it your pattern drawn on silver paper, or sketch it lightly on the surface of the cloth or silk.
Work your stems and tendrils in frisure, your berries or little flowers in spangles.
You can purchase stamped velvet leaves, which you must fasten with strong gum to your velvet or silk, and then keep them firm by veining them with gold thread.
Petals of flowers may be cut out of colored velvet, and arranged on the cloth or velvet, if the young needlewoman has sufficient taste to form a flower.
The work may be done entirely of cachemire and gold on cloth, if a more expensive material is beyond the worker’s means.