Materials: Grey American cloth; red cloth; black jet beads and bugles;
red worsted braid, three-quarters of an inch wide; some strong wire; a
cigar-box.
[Illustration: 159.--Knife Basket.]
This basket is meant for holding dessert knives. It consists of a common
cigar-box nine inches and two-fifths long, five inches and four-fifths
wide, and two inches and one-fifth high, covered inside and out with
grey American cloth, which is ornamented with embroidery worked in
appliqué. The seams are made in overcast stitch. The feet consist of
four pieces of strong wire three inches and two-fifths long. These
pieces of wire are first covered with wool, and then with jet beads;
they are then bent into loops, and fastened on at the bottom of the box
by means of holes bored into it for that purpose. The feet must be
fastened before covering the inside of the box. The inside of the basket
is ornamented with an embroidered pattern in appliqué, which must also
be worked before covering the box. The leaves are made of red cloth, the
stems and veinings of black bugles. No. 160 shows the pattern in full
size; the flowers and leaves are edged with light grey purse silk, over
which small stitches in black silk are fastened at regular intervals.
Inside the box fasten a deal board covered on both sides with American
cloth, so as to divide the basket into two compartments, and fasten on
to this board a handle consisting of a piece of wire seven inches long,
wound round with beads. The basket is ornamented with ruches of red
worsted braid; between two box pleats of the ruche a black bugle is
fastened.
[Illustration: 160.--Knife Basket.]
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161.--_Satin Stitch Embroidery_.
Materials: Purse silk of two colours, in 4 shades of green and 4 shades
of red or magenta for the flowers, gold twist.
[Illustration: 161.--Fuchsia Spray.]
This branch is embroidered with purse silk of the natural colours of the
flowers and leaves, or in different shades of one colour, on silk
canvas. Fuchsia blossoms are here designed, and should be worked in
raised embroidery; the stamens to be worked in gold twist.
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162.--_Acacia Spray in Raised Satin Stitch Embroidery_.
Materials: Four shades of green purse silk for the leaves; 1 skein of
brown silk; 3 shades of white or gold silk for the flowers.
[Illustration: 162.--Acacia Spray.]
This spray of acacia is worked in raised satin stitch embroidery; the
flowers should be carefully shaded, and the veinings should be worked
before the leaves are embroidered. The flowers may be worked gold
colour, or imitate the white acacia blossom.
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[Illustration: 163.--Tobacco Pouch.]
[Illustration: 164.--Tobacco Pouch.]