item: #1 of 9
          id: 12642
      author: Unknown
       title: The Lady's Album of Fancy Work for 1850 Consisting of Novel, Elegant, and Useful Designs in Knitting, Netting, Crochet, Braiding, and Embroidery, with Clear and Explicit Directions for Working the Patterns
        date: None
       words: 20379
      flesch: 92
     summary: STITCH.--This resembles long stitch, excepting that the cotton is twisted twice round the needle. SINGLE OPEN CROCHET.--This is a succession of long stitches, with a chain-stitch between each, missing one stitch of the foundation; in the succeeding rows the long stitch is worked between the two long stitches of the preceding rows.
    keywords: alternate; amber; band; beads; berlin; black; blue; braid; c s; cap; centre; centre stitch; chain; chain crochet; chain stitches; collar; commence; cotton; cover; crimson; d c; ditto; double; double crochet; double long; edge; embroidery; end; ends; fine; finish; flowers; following; form; foundation; fourth; french; gold; green; half; illustration; inches; knit; knitting; l s; lace; lady; leaf; leaves; length; long; long close; long stitches; loop; making; manner; materials; mesh; needle; net; netting; open; paper; pattern; piece; pink; plain; raworth; required; ribbon; ring; rose; round; row; rows; satin; scallop; scarlet; second; shades; silk; single; small; space; stand; stem; stitch; stitches; thread; times; treble; turn; unite; white; wool; work; working; yellow
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        item: #2 of 9
          id: 15147
      author: Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)
       title: Beeton's Book of Needlework
        date: None
       words: 93105
      flesch: 84
     summary: The number of stitches depends on the length and size of the cotton; work double stitches round the circles at the place where both ends meet. Materials: Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.'s tatting cotton No. 30; tatting-pin No. 3. Begin by working separately a sufficient number of small rosettes, each composed of six ovals of double stitches and purl.
    keywords: 1st; 1st chain; 1st circle; 1st double; 1st purl; 1st round; 1st row; 1st stitch; 2nd; 2nd round; 2nd row; 3rd; 3rd round; 3rd row; 4th; 5th; 6th; 7th; 8th; alphabet; appliqué; bag; bars; basket; beads; beginning; black; blue; border; braid; brioche stitch; brown; bruxelles; button; canvas; case; centre; centre purl; chain stitch; circle; close; close double; cloth; co.; collar; coloured; consists; cord; corner; cotton; cotton round; couvrette; cover; cravat; crochet cotton; crochet work; cross stitch; cushion; d'art; d'esprit; d'oyley; darning stitch; design; diamond; distance; dots; double crochet; double fastened; double long; double overcast; double round; double stitches; double thread; edge; edging; embroidered; embroidery cotton; end; ends; evans; eyelet; fastened; fine; fine cotton; finished; flowers; following; form; forwards; foundation chain; gold; green; grey; guipure; half; hand; hole stitch; holes; illustration; inch; inches; insertion; instructions; join; knit; knitted; knitted stitch; knitting; knot; lace; lace stitch; large; leaf; leaves; left; letters; like; linen; linen stitch; long purl; long stitch; loop; manner; materials; mecklenburg; medallion; mesh; messrs; middle; middle purl; middle stitch; muslin; needle; netting; nos; number; open; outer; outlines; oval; overcast stitch; parts; pattern; piece; pin; plain; point; point lace; preceding; pretty; purl; purl stitch; purled; purse; raised; repeat; reprise; ribbon; right; ring; rosette; round; round work; row; rows; russe; satin stitch; scallop; second; short; shows; shuttle; sides; silk; similar; single; single crochet; size; slanting; slip stitch; slipped; small; sorrento; space; spots; square; star; steel; stitch embroidery; stitch work; straight; strip; successive; tatted; tatting; threads; throw; times; treble stitch; trimming; turn; upper; walter; walter evans; way; wheels; white; wide; wool; work; work row; working
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        item: #3 of 9
          id: 20776
      author: Dillmont, Thérèse de
       title: Encyclopedia of Needlework
        date: None
       words: 145300
      flesch: 85
     summary: 125).--Fill in every other diagonal row of meshes with chain stitch, inserting the needle into the same mesh it came out of, so that the thread lies in front of the needle, in a loop. The rows of chain stitch may be made with two or three rows of meshes between them.
    keywords: 10th; 11th; 12th; 1st; 1st chain; 1st plain; 1st row; 2nd; 2nd chain; 2nd picot; 2nd plain; 2nd row; 3rd chain; 3rd plain; 3rd row; 3rd stitch; 4th; 4th chain; 4th plain; 4th row; 4th stitch; 4th thread; 5th; 6th; 7th; 8th; 9th; = =; = net; articles; auxiliary; balls; bars; beginning; begun; beneath; best; better; black; bleu; blue; bobbins; border; braid; broder; brown; brun; bullion stitch; buttonhole stitches; canvas; cardinal; case; centre; chain =; chain stitches; chapter; chiné; close; close stitches; cloth; cluster; cluster stitch; coarse; coloured; colours; complete; connected; consists; cordonnet; corner; corner stitch; coton; cottons; counting; cover; crochet; cross stitch; crossed; cut; d'alsace; d'or; d.m.c; d.m.c nos; d.m.c threads; d.m.c[a; damask; damask stitch; dark; darning stitch; decrease; dentelle; design; detail; diagonal; different; direction; double; double chain; double knots; double stitch; double thread; double treble; downwards; drawing; easy; edge; edging; effect; embroidery; end; ends; engraving; fasten; fifth; fig; figs; figures; fil; fils; fils d.m.c; fine; fingers; finished; flat stitch; flowers; following; footing; forefinger; form; foundation; foundation chain; fourth; frame; fringe; fro; gobelin stitch; gold; gold thread; good; great; green; gris; grounding; group; half; half treble; hand; hand thread; hem; hold; holes; horizontal; illustration; increase; indigo; inner; insertion; inside; instance; irish; jaune; join; kind; knit; knitted; knitting; knot stitch; knots; knotted stitch; lace stitch; lace thread; large; leaf; leaves; left; left needle; length; letters; lie; like; linen; linen stitch; little; long; long stitches; loop; loop stitch; loose; lozenge stitch; macramé; making; manner; materials; means; mesh; middle; necessary; needle; needlework; netting; new; nos; number; ones; open; opposite; ordinary; original; outside; overcasting; overs; pair =; paper; parts; passing; pattern; petal; picot; piece; pillow; pin; pins; place; plain =; plain cross; plain loop; plain netting; plain rounds; plain row; plain stitch; plaited; point; pointer; position; possible; pour; preceding; pretty; previous; purl; purpose; quadruple; raised; readers; red; regular; repriser; right; right needle; ring; rouge; round; row; row--1 chain; rows; running; russian stitch; satin stitch; scallop; seam; second; second row; second stitch; second thread; series; set; sewing; shades; shell; short; shows; shuttles; sides; silk; similar; single; single chain; single stitch; single thread; size; slanting; slip; slipped; slipped stitches; small; soutache; space; square; stalk; star; stem stitch; stitch =; stitch fig; stitches =; stitching; straight; stripes; stroke stitch; stuff; suitable; surface; tassels; tatting; thick; thread; thumb; tilleul; times; tracing; treble; tricoter; triple; tunisian; turkish stitch; turn; turning; twist; twisted; unbleached; underneath; upper; use; variety; venetian; vert; vertical; violet; way; ways; wheels; white; wide; width; work; worked; working; wrong; | |; écru
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        item: #4 of 9
          id: 26120
      author: Lowes, Emily Leigh
       title: Chats on Old Lace and Needlework
        date: None
       words: 37266
      flesch: 69
     summary: Messrs. Haywards (whose courtesy is as boundless as their reputation) are always pleased to show this and their other splendid specimen collections to those interested in old lace. With the aid of these little charts, a remembrance of the various styles and a few actual specimens of lace, and _a powerful magnifying glass_, it is not beyond the power of any reader of this little book to become expert in the identification of old lace.
    keywords: actual; alençon; altar; ancient; anne; art; arthur; artistic; attempt; author; authorities; bayeux; beads; beautiful; beauty; best; better; black; black lace; blonde; blonde lace; body; book; border; brides; british; brussels; brussels lace; buckinghamshire; buttonhole; canvas; cathedral; catherine; century; certain; chantilly; charles; charming; chats; christie; church; cloth; coarse; collar; collection; coloured; colours; contemporary; cope; cordonnet; costly; costume; countries; country; court; cover; cross; cut; cuthbert; d'alençon; d'angleterre; d'argentan; dainty; date; day; days; death; deep; delightful; design; devonshire; different; dress; dresses; earlier; earliest; early; early lace; ecclesiastical; egyptian; eighteenth; elizabeth; embroideries; embroidery; end; england; english; english lace; examples; exquisite; exquisite lace; faces; fairy; famous; fashion; favourite; figures; fillings; fine; fine lace; fine old; fine point; finest; flanders; flat; flax; flemish; flounce; flowers; form; frame; france; french; frontal; garments; gaze; genoa; genoese; george; glass; gloves; gold; gold lace; good; great; greek; gros; ground; hair; hand; hangings; head; henry; high; history; home; honiton; honiton lace; illustrated; illustration; imitation; immense; inches; influence; introduction; irish; italian; italian lace; italy; james; kensington; kind; known; lace; lace stitches; lacis; ladies; lady; lappet; large; later; left; length; life; like; lille; limerick; linen; little; little lace; london; long; louis; machine; magnificent; making; maniple; manner; manufacture; marie; market; mary; means; mechlin; mesh; method; mirror; mixed; modern; modern lace; mrs; museum; national; needlecraft; needlepoint; needlepoint lace; needlework; network; new; nineteenth; nuns; old; old lace; open; original; page; pair; parts; patterns; pearls; people; period; petit; petit point; picture; piece; pillow; pillow lace; point; point d'alençon; point d'argentan; point lace; poor; popular; portraits; present; pretty; prices; punto; quaint; quality; queen; real; reign; remains; renaissance; result; reticella; rooms; rose; rose point; royal; réseau; s.k.m; sale; sampler; satin; school; set; seventeenth; silk; silver; simple; sixteenth; skill; small; south; spain; spanish; special; specimens; sprays; stitch; stitchery; stitches; stuart; stump; style; subjects; syon; tapestry; thread; time; tiny; town; trimming; tudor; valenciennes; value; varieties; variety; velvet; venetian; venetian lace; venetian point; venice; vestments; viii; virgin; way; wearing; white; wide; william; women; wool; work; workers; working; worn; xiv; yards; years
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        item: #5 of 9
          id: 28269
      author: Buckle, Mary
       title: Art in Needlework: A Book about Embroidery
        date: None
       words: 47343
      flesch: 76
     summary: Of line stitches, for example, some are best suited for straight lines, others for curved; some for broad lines, others for narrow; some for even lines, others for unequal; some for outlining, others for veining. Embroidery, it has been shown, is much of it on the surface of the stuff, not just needle stitches, but the stitching-on of something--cord, gold thread, or whatever it may be.
    keywords: "--_the; 16th; 17th; 8vo; account; admirable; appearance; applied; appliqué; art; artist; artistic; background; beautiful; best; better; birds; blue; bone; book; border; broad; bullion; buttonhole; canvas; canvas stitch; case; centre; century; certain; chain; chain stitch; character; chinese; church; church work; close; cloth; colour; coloured; combination; common; cord; cotton; couched; couching; course; covering; crewel; cross; cut; dark; darning; day; decorative; delicate; design; designer; details; diaper; difference; difficulty; direction; double; drawing; edge; edition; effect; embroidery; embroidress; end; english; example; fact; far; fashion; feather; figure; fine; flat; flesh; floss; flowers; folio; form; frame; french; german; gilt; gives; gold; good; great; green; ground; half; hand; herring; horizontal; illustration; inch; indian; inlay; italian; japanese; kind; knot; known; large; leaf; leaves; left; length; like; lines; little; long; look; lower; making; manner; material; matter; means; mediæval; mesh; method; miss; modern; mrs; natural; necessary; needle; needlewoman; needlework; net; new; open; ordinary; oriental; ornament; outline; outline work; outlining; page; painting; pattern; pictorial; piece; place; plates; plumage; point; possible; practical; practice; price; purpose; reason; reference; relief; renaissance; results; ribbon; right; rope; rows; satin; satin stitch; second; seq; series; sewing; shading; shape; short; shows; sidenote; silk; silver; simple; single; slanting; small; solid; space; split; square; stalk; stem; stitch; stitch sampler; stitches; stitching; straight; stuff; subject; suited; surface; tambour; tapestry; term; text; texture; thick; thing; thread; thumb; time; tint; treatment; twisted; underlay; upper; use; useful; usual; value; variety; velvet; view; want; warp; way; ways; weaving; white; wire; wool; word; work; work sampler; worker; working; worth; yellow
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        item: #6 of 9
          id: 29382
      author: Anonymous
       title: The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet
        date: None
       words: 46081
      flesch: 75
     summary: This is called plain stitch, and is to be continued until one round is completed. A CROCHET NECK CHAIN.--Commence with fine plain stitches; then put the needle through the back of the second, and make one stitch plain.
    keywords: advantage; alternate; appearance; arm; articles; attention; bag; band; beads; beautiful; beauty; beginning; best; black; blue; border; braid; breadth; broad; button; calico; canvas; cap; care; careful; case; cast; centre; chain; changed; chapter; close; cloths; coarse; color; commence; common; complete; contrast; cotton; covers; crochet; cross stitch; dark; deep; diamond; directions; double; dress; easy; edge; effect; elegant; embroidery; end; ends; explanation; fair; fancy; fifth; fine; finger; finish; finished; flowers; following; follows; fore; form; foundation; fourth; fourth row; frame; gathering; german; gold; good; great; green; half; hand; heel; hem; herring; high; holes; illustration; implements; inch; increase; instructions; judgment; kind; knit; knitted; knitting; knot; ladies; lady; large; leaves; left; length; life; like; linen; little; long; looks; loop; loop stitch; loose; making; manner; material; means; mesh; meshes; middle; mind; moral; muslin; nails; narrow; neat; necessary; neck; needle; needlework; net; netted; netting; number; ones; open; ornamental; paper; pattern; pearl; pearl stitch; pearled; piece; pin; pins; place; plain; plain needlework; plain stitch; point; possible; pretty; produce; proper; purposes; purse; repeat; ribbon; right; round; row; row plain; rows; run; satin; seam; second; second row; set; shades; shawl; sides; silk; silver; single; sixth; size; slip; slit; small; space; square; steel; stitch; stitch.--this; stitches; straight; stripe; strong; succeeding; sufficient; table; taste; tent stitch; threads; thumb; time; turn; twice; twist; use; useful; variety; way; white; wide; width; wool; work; worked; working; young
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        item: #7 of 9
          id: 31714
      author: Menzies, Sutherland, active 1840-1883
       title: The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries
        date: None
       words: 104770
      flesch: 64
     summary: Fashion in those days was not quite the chameleon-hued creature that she is at present; nor were the fabrics on which her fancy was displayed quite so light and airy: their gold _was_ gold--not silk covered with gilded silver; and consequently the raiment of those days, inwrought with slips of gold beaten thin and cut into spangles or strips, and sewed on in various patterns, sometimes intermingled with precious stones, would carry its own intrinsic value with it. One while the Englishmen rushed on, another while they fell back; one while the men from over sea charged onwards, and again at other times retreated.
    keywords: abbey; abbot; abraham; absurd; accomplished; account; accustomed; actions; acts; addition; admirable; admiration; advantage; affection; ages; alexander; altar; amadis; amusement; ancestors; ancient; angel; animals; animated; antiquarian; antiquity; apartments; apostles; apparel; appearance; archbishop; armada; armed; armour; arms; army; arrangement; arras; art; arthur; articles; artist; aspect; attempt; attendant; attention; attire; author; authority; aux; ball; bands; banners; barons; battle; bayeux; beard; bearing; beasts; beautiful; beauty; bed; beds; beginning; behold; berlin; best; better; bible; binding; birds; birth; bishop; black; blessed; blood; blue; bodies; body; bones; book; borders; bore; boy; branches; brave; breast; breeches; bright; brilliant; bring; britain; british; broad; broken; brother; business; busy; camp; canvas; captive; cardinal; care; cartoons; castle; cathedral; cause; celebrated; centre; centuries; century; certain; chain; chamber; change; chapter; character; charlemagne; charles; chaucer; cherished; chief; chiefly; child; children; chivalry; christ; christian; church; churches; circle; circumstance; city; classical; close; cloth; clothes; clothing; coat; cold; coloured; colours; come; comfort; common; companion; company; complete; conqueror; conquest; consequence; considerable; conspicuous; constant; construction; convent; conversation; copy; coronation; correct; costly; costume; countries; country; course; court; courtly; covering; creation; crimson; cross; crown; curious; custom; cut; cæsar; daily; dames; dans; dark; date; daughter; day; days; dead; death; decoration; deeds; deep; degree; delicate; delighted; delle; des; description; designs; desire; destruction; details; devices; devoted; diamonds; different; difficult; dim; dish; display; disposition; distant; distinguished; divers; divine; domestic; doth; double; doubtless; douglas; drawing; dress; dresses; drinking; duke; duties; dyed; earliest; early; earnest; earth; east; eastern; easy; education; edward; effect; egyptian; eighth; elaborate; elegant; elevated; elizabeth; emblems; embroidered; emperor; empire; employment; empress; end; endeavoured; england; english; enormous; equal; establishment; esteemed; europe; eve; evening; event; example; excellent; excuse; exercise; existence; expedition; expense; expensive; exquisite; extravagant; eye; eyes; face; fact; faerie; fair; fairies; faith; fall; fame; familiar; family; famous; fanciful; fancy; far; fashion; fashionable; fast; fastened; father; favourite; fearful; feathers; feelings; feet; female; feminine; field; fifteenth; figures; fine; finest; fingers; fire; fit; fitting; fixed; flowers; flowing; following; fond; footnotes; force; forest; form; fourteenth; fourth; france; francis; french; friend; furniture; furs; gallant; gammer; garments; gay; gems; general; genius; gentle; gentlemen; german; girdles; glittering; glory; gobelins; god; gold; gold thread; golden; good; gorgeous; grace; graceful; gracious; grand; great; greater; greatest; greek; grey; group; guest; guy; habentem; habit; hair; half; hall; hampton; hand; hangings; happy; harold; hath; having; hawk; head; heart; heaven; heavy; height; hem; henry; heroes; high; higher; highest; hill; hir; historians; historical; history; hodge; holy; home; honour; honoured; hope; horns; horses; host; hours; house; household; hugh; human; hung; hunting; huon; husband; hym; idea; iii; illustrious; imagination; imitation; important; imprisonment; incident; increase; indebted; industry; inferior; influence; inhabitants; insignificant; instances; instrument; interesting; introduction; invention; inwrought; iron; island; israel; item; ivory; jewels; john; joseph; joy; kind; king; kingdom; knight; labours; ladies; lady; lance; large; late; latin; laws; lay; learned; learning; leaves; left; length; leo; les; letters; leurs; library; life; light; lighter; like; linen; little; lively; lives; living; locks; lofty; london; long; look; loom; lord; lost; louis; love; luxury; luy; magnificent; maiden; majestic; majesty; making; man; manner; mansions; mantle; manufacture; marks; martyr; mary; material; matilda; matter; means; memoirs; men; mention; mere; message; metal; middle; mighty; mind; minstrel; mistress; modern; modes; moment; monarch; money; monks; monument; moon; moors; morning; mother; mss; multitude; museum; nations; native; natural; nature; nay; near; neat; necessary; necessity; needles; needlewoman; needlework; neele; new; nobility; noble; non; norman; notable; notice; nous; number; numerous; o'er; object; occasion; occupation; ocean; offering; office; open; opinion; order; original; ornamental; page; painting; pair; palaces; pale; pall; parts; passage; passing; passion; past; patterns; paul; pay; peacock; pearls; peculiar; pennon; people; perchance; percy; perfection; period; person; personal; peter; picture; pieces; pilgrimage; pins; pious; più; place; plain; plates; pleased; pleasure; pocket; poet; point; poor; pope; portion; possible; pour; power; powerful; practice; praise; prayer; precious; presence; present; pretty; pride; priest; primitive; prince; princess; principal; prison; prisoner; private; probable; procession; produce; productions; profit; progress; promise; proof; proper; proud; public; purchase; pure; purple; purpose; pursuits; qu'on; quantity; queen; qui; quoth; radiant; rage; raiment; rank; rare; readers; reading; ready; real; reason; record; regard; regular; reign; relics; religion; religious; remains; remark; remarkable; request; residence; respect; results; return; rich; richard; richest; richness; ridiculous; rise; river; robert; robes; romance; romans; rome; room; rose; round; royal; ruffs; ryche; ryence; sacred; said; sake; satisfaction; saviour; saxons; sayd; scarce; scarf; scarlet; scene; school; science; scotland; scots; sea; seat; second; series; servant; service; set; sets; setting; seventh; sewing; sex; shades; shakspeare; shape; sheep; shelter; ships; shoes; shoulders; shrine; sides; silent; silk; silken; silver; similar; simple; single; sir; sister; size; skill; skins; sky; sleeve; small; social; society; soft; solace; soldiers; solemn; solitary; song; sorrow; sort; soul; sounds; space; spain; spanish; specimen; spinning; spirit; splendid; splendour; spot; spun; standard; standing; stars; state; station; stitch; stitchery; stitches; stockings; stones; store; stories; strange; street; strong; study; stuff; stupendous; style; subject; subsequent; successful; successor; sudden; suffering; sufficient; suit; suld; sum; sumptuous; sun; superintendence; surcoat; sweet; sword; syr; tabernacle; table; tailors; talent; tapestries; tapestry; tapisseries; task; taste; taylor; temple; tents; term; testimony; text; thee; things; thou; thought; thread; throne; thy; tib; time; tissue; title; token; tous; town; train; treasures; tree; triumph; troy; true; truth; tunic; une; united; universal; unknown; use; useful; usual; utility; vain; valiant; valuable; value; varied; variety; vellum; velvet; vestem; vestments; vests; view; viii; virgin; virtue; virtuous; visit; viz; vol; volumes; vous; walk; walls; wandering; want; wardrobe; warm; warton; warwick; water; way; weapon; wear; weaving; westminster; whiche; white; whitehall; wide; wife; wilderness; william; willing; winchester; winds; winter; wit; women; wonder; wondrous; wood; wool; worked; working; works; world; worth; writers; writing; wrought; wyth; xix; yard; year; york; young; zeal
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        item: #8 of 9
          id: 34854
      author: McGlauflin, Idabelle
       title: Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care
        date: None
       words: 32019
      flesch: 84
     summary: See Description of Stitches Used in Plain Sewing, page 63. White thread No. 50; needle No. 7.
    keywords: bag; band; basket; baste; basting; beginning; bias; binding; blanket; blanket stitch; book; buttonhole; buttonhole stitch; cardboard; care; case; center; chapter; children; christmas; class; cloth; collar; color; colored; corner; cotton; cover; crease; cut; cutting; darning; decoration; description; design; directions; draw; drawing; edge; eighth; electives; end; ends; exercise; fabrics; facing; fibers; fine; finished; finishing; flannel; flat; fold; forefinger; form; fourth; french; garment; gathering; glue; good; grade; half; half inch; hand; hem; hemming; hems; herringbone; hold; holder; home; illustration; inch; inch fold; inch hem; inch seam; inches; knot; large; left; length; line; little; long; long stitch; loop; making; materials; measure; middle; muslin; necessary; needle; new; number; opening; outside; overhand; overhanding; page; paper; passing; patch; pattern; picture; piece; pin; place; placket; plain; point; possible; practice; price; pupils; quarter; raffia; reed; right; round; running; running stitch; sampler; seam; second; sewing; shape; short; sides; silk; simple; size; sleeve; slip; small; square; stitch; stitches; stitching; straight; strip; style; tape; teacher; thread; time; tuck; turn; use; warp; way; white; width; woof; wool; work; working; worn; wrong; year
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        item: #9 of 9
          id: 44766
      author: Archer, Effie Archer
       title: The Library of Work and Play: Needlecraft
        date: None
       words: 68650
      flesch: 87
     summary: Thread your needle with sewing cotton or silk the colour of the braid and sew it down with little running stitches and an occasional back-stitch to fasten it firmly. Chain stitch (ch) (Figure No. 227) 3.
    keywords: 1st; 2nd; 3rd; 4th; 5th; appliqué; apron; articles; background; bag; band; bar; basket; baste; basting; beads; beautiful; beginning; best; bias; blue; border; box; braid; braiding; brim; buttonhole; buttonholing; canvas; cardboard; case; cast; catch; centre; chain; chain stitch; chain work; chapter; circle; close; cloth; collar; colour; coloured; combination; cord; corner; cotton; course; cover; covered; crease; crochet; cross; crown; cushion; cut; cutting; dainty; daisy; darning; deep; design; different; doll; dots; double; double crochet; drawn; dress; easy; edge; effect; eighth; elaborate; embroidery; end; ends; entire; extreme; eyelet; fancy; fasten; fig; figure; fine; finger; finished; flat; fold; form; foundation; fourth; frame; french; gathering; girl; good; great; green; group; half; half inch; hand; hand needle; handkerchief; hat; heavy; hem; hemstitching; holes; hook; illustration; inch; inches; insert; inside; join; kind; knitting; knot; lace; large; lawn; leaf; leather; leaves; left; left needle; length; lengthwise; letter; like; line; little; long; look; loop; lower; makes; manner; marking; material; measure; middle; miss; mother; muslin; narrow; necessary; needle; net; new; number; ones; open; opening; opposite; outer; padding; pair; paper; pass; pattern; petal; picot; piece; pillow; pink; plain; point; position; possible; pretty; previous; purl; quarter; raffia; rattan; ready; red; repeat; required; ribbon; right; ring; room; rose; row; row work; rows; running; satin; scallop; school; scissors; seam; second; second row; section; sewing; shape; sheaf; short; sides; silk; simple; single; single crochet; size; skip; skirt; slant; sleeve; slip; slip needle; small; smocking; soft; space; spider; spoke; square; start; steel; stencil; stitch; stitches; stitching; straight; strands; strip; sts; sufficient; table; tape; thick; thing; thread; thumb; tie; time; turn; upper; use; waist; warp; water; way; weave; weaving; white; wide; wool; work; worked; working; worsted; woven; wrong; yellow
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