E CHRISTIE.

_Ewell,
September 1906._

CONTENTS

PAGE
EDITOR'S PREFACE xi

AUTHOR'S PREFACE xvii

PART I

EMBROIDERY

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION 27

CHAPTER II

TOOLS, APPLIANCES, AND MATERIALS

Needles--Scissors--Thimbles--Frames--Stand and Frame combined--Tambour
Frame--Cord-making Appliance--Requisites for Transferring
Patterns--Pricker--Knife--Spindle--Piercer--Materials suitable for
Embroidering upon--Threads of all Kinds--Stones, Beads, &c. 34

CHAPTER III

PATTERN DESIGNING

The Difficulties of Pattern Making--A Stock-in-Trade--Some Principles
upon which Patterns are Built Up--Spacing-Out--Nature and
Convention--Shading--Figure Work--Limitations--Colour 51

CHAPTER IV

STITCHES

Introduction--Chain Stitch--Zigzag Chain--Chequered Chain--Twisted
Chain--Open Chain--Braid Stitch--Cable Chain--Knotted Chain--Split
Stitch 75

CHAPTER V

STITCHES--(_continued_)

Satin Stitch--Long and Short Stitch--Stem Stitch--Overcast Stitch--Back
Stitch--Buttonhole Stitch--Tailor's Buttonhole--Fancy Buttonhole
Edgings--Flower in Open Buttonhole Stitch--Leaf in Close Buttonhole
Stitches--Petal in Solid Buttonholing 95

CHAPTER VI

STITCHES--(_continued_)

Knots and Knot Stitches--Herring-bone Stitch--Feather Stitch--Basket
Stitch--Fishbone Stitch--Cretan Stitch--Roumanian Stitch--Various
Insertion Stitches--Picots 118

CHAPTER VII

CANVAS WORK AND STITCHES

Introduction--Samplers--Petit Point Pictures--Cross Stitch--Tent
Stitch--Gobelin Stitch--Irish Stitch--Plait Stitch--Two-sided Italian
Stitch--Holbein Stitch--Rococo Stitch 147

CHAPTER VIII

METHODS OF WORK

Couching--Braid Work--Laid Work--Applied Work--Inlaid Work--Patch Work
164

CHAPTER IX

METHODS OF WORK--(_continued_)

Quilting--Raised Work--Darning--Open Fillings--Darned Netting 189

CHAPTER X

Methods of work--(_continued_)

Drawn Thread Work--Hem Stitching--Simple Border Patterns--Darned Thread
Patterns-