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Show "Paint on Canvas With Stitches" t i 1U , . if v. ? I f v I ? - - ' I ' J ' Heirloom tapestries can still be made at home, now that American mills are manufacturing needlepoint cotton canvas as good, or better, than the imported variety. The picture Illustrates the aristocratic aristo-cratic air of a dining room whose chairs are upholstered with handmade needlepoint embroidery. Excellent needlepoint canvas is now being made here in the U.S.A., In our own mills, of our own American Ameri-can cotton, although for many years it was all imported. Here is another an-other instance of American resources re-sources and Ingenuity turning out a product, formerly thought impossible impos-sible to make here. Many needlepoint needle-point experts are claiming that this canvas is superior to any other, says the Cotton-Textile Institute and National Cotton Council. Almost every woman has admired the beauty of gros point (large stitch) and petit point (small stitch) embroidery and wished she could practice an art which yields such rich treasures for the home. Since needlepoint tapestries are very easy to make, as far as the actual embroidery work goes, even unskilled needlewomen are able to make "heirloom" fire screens, chair seats and backs, footstool covers, bell pulls, or handbags for themselves them-selves and their friends. All-Out Embroidery Not content to make excellent canvas, American manufacturers introduced in-troduced a new development in the pieces sold for embroidery. Formerly, Former-ly, these were purchased with the central motif of the tapestry embroidered. em-broidered. All the needleworker had to do was to fill in the background. Now, however, center designs are applied on the canvas by a special process of screen printing. The colors serve as a guide for sewing, so that anyone can embroider the central motif herself by following the colors of the painted deslgnj |