An embroidery book

by Anne Knox Arthur

Simple wooden looms for the making of braids, hat bands, ties, girdles, etc., with instructions and with a piece of work started, may be had from the Dryad Works, 42, Nicholas Street, Leicester. The same firm supplies raffia in brilliant colours and raffia needles.

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.