Co.'s
embroidery cotton No. 24.

This pattern is very easily worked, and looks very nice for a trimming.
It is worked on fine white muslin; the border is worked in button-hole
stitch with white cotton; these scallops are covered with loose
button-hole stitch in black silk. The feather-like branches are worked
likewise in black silk in herring-bone stitch. The white spots are worked
in raised embroidery. The large oval openings through which a narrow
ribbon velvet is drawn are worked round with button-hole stitches:

[Illustration: 170.--Trimming for Bodices.]

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171, 172, _and_ 173--_Toilet Cushion Cover in White Embroidery_.

This handsome embroidery pattern is to be worked on fine muslin; if
lined with coloured silk or satin it is very effective. The patterns,
which are covered white dots on illustration, are worked in point d'or;
the outlines of these patterns are worked in fine double overcast. The
flower-leaves and wings of birds, which appear raised on illustration on
account of the dark shadows, are worked separately and sewn on at the
corresponding places. No. 172 shows the wing of a bird, No. 173 a
rose-leaf somewhat increased in size; the former is worked entirely in
button-hole stitch, or trimmed with a ruche of coloured ribbon. This
pattern may also be worked on glace silk with purse silk.

[Illustration: 171.--Toilet Cushion Cover in White Embroidery.]

[Illustration: 172.--Wing of Bird.]

[Illustration: 173.--Rose Leaf.]

[Illustration: 174.--Pattern for Glove Box.]

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174 _and_ 175.--_Glove Box_.

Materials: 15 inches of French blue cashmere; silks of various colours.
A shape in bamboo cane, painted brown and varnished.

[Illustration: 175.--Glove Box.]

The ornamentation of this box is both novel and tasteful. It is
embroidered in coloured silks, upon light blue cashmere. Part of the
embroidery pattern is given in full size. All the outlines are worked in
overcast, the stitches being made rather long and slanting, and the
small leaves are each composed of one stitch, as in point Russe. The
leaves are alternately red and yellow upon a green stem; the scalloped
outline which has no leaves is red. The pine patterns are worked in
satin stitch--the centre one is green, edged with red; the side ones are
pink, edged with red; the small wing-like figures are black, edged with
maize; the diamond, maize, edged with bl