Fig. 193. Renaissance embroidery.
Richelieu embroidery (fig. [194]).—The name given to embroidery of a similar kind to the former, but in which the connecting bars, instead of being left plain as they are in the Renaissance embroidery, are ornamented with picots.
Fig. 194. Richelieu embroidery.
Madeira work (figs. [195], [196], [197]).—This kind of embroidery, which consists chiefly of eyelet holes, and is distinguished for the excellence of its workmanship used to be known as English, but is now generally called Madeira work, from the island where it originated. The scallops in figs. [195] and [197], are bordered with shaded eyelet holes, worked half in button-hole stitch, half in overcasting; the finely scalloped edge, in fig. [196], is entirely button-holed. In working eyelet holes, the material must always be turned in, up to the inside line, and completely worked in, underneath the in order that no loose threads may be visible on the wrong side.
Fig. 196. Madeira work.
Materials: Coton Madeira D.M.C No. 40, 50 or 60. (Special cotton for Madeira work)[A]