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64. INLAY IN COLOURED CLOTHS.
In India they still inlay in cloth most marvellously, not only counterchanging the pattern, but inlaying the inlays with smaller patternwork, thus combining great simplicity of effect with wonderful minuteness of detail. They mask the joins with chain-stitch, the colour of it artfully chosen with regard to the two colours of the cloth it divides or joins. Further, they often patch together pieces of this kind of inlay.
Inlay itself is a sort of Patchwork. You cut pieces out of your cloth, and patch it with pieces of another colour, covering the joins perhaps, as on Illustration [64], with chain stitch, which gives it some resemblance to cloisonné enamel, the cloisons being of chain-stitch.
Where there is no one ground stuff to be patched, but a number of vari-coloured pieces of stuff are sewn together, they form a veritable Mosaic, reminding one, in coloured stuffs, of what the mediæval glaziers did in coloured glass. Admirable heraldic work was done in Germany by this method; and it is still employed for flag making. The stuffs used should be as nearly as possible of one substance. In patchwork of loosely-textured material each separate piece of stuff may be cut large, turned in at the edge, and oversewn on the wrong side.
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65. CUT-WORK IN LINEN.