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Show Klogant I.lnan Kmbrnldery. Warld. Some of the popular linen imbroidery is exceedingly handsome. A beautiful tea cloth in particular would be suitable suita-ble for a wedding present, as it is intended in-tended to be worked entirely with white silk. It is a desigu of thistles, forming a large group in each corner of the cloth. The lower parts of the flowers raised in very high relief; ovor the padding pad-ding is a delicate network of silk worked work-ed in open buttonhole Mitch, which reproduces re-produces the scaly texture of the real ilowers very effectively. The blossoms themselves are worked in coral stitch or feather stitch, as some workets call it. Another piece of embroider worthy of note is to tie executed in shades of green silk, and represents bunches of catkins. These also are much raised above the linen background, and are worked over the padding in an open couching stitch. |