Materials: 20 inches of Java canvas; single Berlin wool of 2 shades of a
pretty green; 2 shades of bronze colour and white; floss silk--white,
brown, and 2 shades of yellow; purse silk--black, yellow, cerise, blue,
and grey; steel beads; brown silk fancy braid.
[Illustration: 168.--Travelling Bag.]
This pattern is of the ordinary shape of travelling-bags, but it is very
prettily worked. Besides the engraving showing the bag when completed,
the bouquet in the centre in full size is given. This bouquet is also
worked upon the Java canvas. For each petal the white wool is passed
several times from one stitch of the canvas to another till the required
thickness is obtained, then 1 stitch is worked at the point with white
silk. The centres are filled up in point d'or with 2 shades of yellow
silk. The buds are made like the petals, but with 3 stitches of white
silk at the point instead of 1. The leaves are worked in 2 shades of
green wool with 1 stitch of brown silk in the centre; the stems are
embroidered in overcast with light brown wool. The scroll-pattern border
round the bouquet is made with brown fancy braid put on with steel
beads.
[Illustration: 169.--Bouquet for Travelling Bag.]
The remaining space outside this border is worked in coloured purse
silk. The 1st outline of the squares is worked in black silk, by
inserting the needle in and out of the stitches of the canvas. When you
have worked all the square thus, 12 stitches one from the other, work on
either side, at one stitch's distance, the outlines of yellow silk,
which are worked in back stitch, two strips of the Java canvas being
covered by each stitch. Next to the inner yellow outline comes a border
worked over two strips of the canvas, in slanting stitches; this border
is alternately blue in one square and grey in the other. A star is
embroidered in point Russe in the centre of each square; it is grey in
the blue squares and blue in the grey; a steel bead is placed in the
middle of each star. The small crosses between the squares are worked in
cerise. The outer border of the work is composed of a piece of black
soutache, edged with a tiny trefoil pattern in cerise silk. The front
and back pieces of the bag are worked in the same manner. The side
pieces are made of plain Java canvas. The embroidered part measures 14
inches in its widest part, and is 11 inches deep. The bag is lined with
light brown silk, and made up with a steel clasp.
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170.--_Embroidery Trimming for Muslin Bodices_.
Materials: Fine muslin; fine black silk; Messrs. Walter Evans and 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 glacé 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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