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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

1. TAPESTRY--to illustrate work on a warp not on a web. From Akhmin in
Upper Egypt. Ancient Coptic. (In the Victoria and Albert Museum.)

2. DRAWN-WORK ON FINE LINEN, embroidered with gold and colour. Oriental.
(From the collection of Mrs. Lewis F. Day.)

3. DARNING AND SATIN-STITCH on square mesh--The darning leaf, green,
follows the lines of the stuff; outlined with yellow, veined with pink
and white; stem, yellow, its foliation pink, outlined with white, and
ribbed with blue and white. Italian. 17th century. (V. & A. M.)

4. CROSS-STITCH UPON LINEN. Hungarian. Compare Illustration 45.

5. CROSS-STITCH SAMPLER--A and B, solid; C, line work; D,
stroke-stitch--called also Holbein-stitch; E, stroke and cross stitches
combined.

6. CANVAS-STITCH in coloured silk upon linen. The band Italian, the
foliated diaper Oriental. (Mrs. L. F. D.)

7. CANVAS-STITCH--Design comparatively free, but showing in its outline
the influence of the rectangular lines of the weaving. Cretan. (Mrs. L.
F. D.)

8. CANVAS-STITCH SAMPLER--A, tent-stitch; B, half-cross-stitch; C,
cushion-stitch; D, Moorish-stitch, so called; E, plait-stitch; F,
couching on canvas.

9. CUSHION AND SATIN-STITCHES UPON CANVAS--The Satin-stitches follow the
lines of the stuff, and form a diaper built upon them. Compare
Illustration 71.

10. TWO VARIETIES OF CANVAS-STITCH, the pattern in the bare linen, the
background worked--A, plait-stitch, the ornament outlined; B, stitches
drawn tightly together so as to pull the threads of the linen apart,
giving very much the effect of drawn-work. Compare Illustration 2. (Mrs.
L. F. D.)

11. CREWEL-STITCH SAMPLER--A and C, crewel-stitch; B and D,
outline-stitch; E, back-stitch; F, spots; G and H, stem-stitch; J,
crewel and outline-stitches in combination.

12. BACK OF CREWEL-STITCH SAMPLER.

13. CREWEL-WORK--the stem only worked in crewel-stitch. Embroidered in
green, blue, and brown wools upon white cotton. Old English. (Coll. of
Miss Argles.)

14. CREWEL-WORK, in which crewel-stitch hardly occurs. Embroidered in
coloured wools upon white cotton. Old English. (Coll. of J. M. Knapp,
Esq.)

15. CREWEL-STITCH IN TWISTED SILK. The scroll in green upon a
brownish-purple ground; the smaller leafage upon the scroll in brighter
green; the flowers and butterflies in blue and pink. Modern. (Mrs. L. F.
Day.)

16. CHAIN-STITCH AND KNOTS--Part