the
paste will be much better.

CLEANING.

Good crewels will always wash or clean without injury; but the cheap
and inferior worsteds will not do so. Ordinary crewel work on linen
may be washed at home, by plunging it into a lather made by water in
which bran has been boiled, or even with simple soap-suds, so long as
no soda or washing-powder is used. It should be carefully rinsed
without wringing, and hung up to dry. When almost dry, it may be
stretched out with drawing-pins on a board, and will not require
ironing.

Embroidery on cloth or serge may often be cleaned with benzoline,
applied with a piece of clean flannel; but in any case, where a piece
of work is much soiled, or in the case of fine d'oyleys, it is safer
to send it to the cleaner's.

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_Messrs. Pullar and Son, Perth Dye Works, are very
successful in cleaning all kinds of embroidery without
injuring it._

_In many cases it may be well dyed--the silk in which
the design is worked always showing a different shade
from the ground._

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APPENDIX.

DESIGNS FOR EMBROIDERY.

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DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES.

No. 1.--DESIGN FOR WALL-PANEL. By Mr. E. Burne-Jones.

Worked in outline on neutral-tinted hand-woven linen in
brown crewel. This style of embroidery is very suitable
for internal decoration, where a good broad effect is
required without a large amount of labour. A frieze or
dado, or complete panelling of a room, may be worked in
this way at a comparatively small cost.

No. 2.--DESIGN FOR WALL OR SCREEN PANEL. By Mr. Walter Crane.
Representing the Four Elements.

Embroidered in crewels on a silk ground of dead gold
colour partly outlined.

No. 3.--DESIGN FOR QUILT OR TABLE COVER. By Mr. George Aitchison.

A border of sunflowers and pomegranates, with powderings
of the same for the centre.

This has been embroidered on cream-coloured satin de
chine in solid crewel work, with charming effect, both
for a counterpane and curtains.

No. 4.--DESIGN FOR WALL PANELLING OR CURTAINS. By Mr. Fairfax Wade.

To be worked in outline and solid embroidery, in silk or
filoselle, on satin de chine.

No. 5.--DESIGN FOR QUILT OR COUVRE-PIED. By Mr. Fairfax Wade. To
introduce squares of Greek or guipure lace.

Worked in golden shades of silk on linen, lined with