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Rh soft towel to dry; sufficient crewels or silks should be purchased to last through the work as it is often extremely difficult to match the shades exactly.

A very pretty "all over" design for a chair-back or tidy is shown in Fig. 17. It can be worked in outline on a darned background or in filled in embroidery.

Fig. 17.

But few patterns are given in this chapter for the reason that the space is too limited to give working designs, and new patterns ready for working are so easily procured. Originality is a great beauty in such designs, and when they are met with in a manual, the eye soon becomes weary of them.

Perforated patterns with the materials for stamping can now be bought for a mere trifle, and the work done from them will prove more satisfactory than when your design stares you constantly in the face from the pages of a book.

HOLBEIN STITCH, POINT RUSSE, TICKING WORK, ETC.

Holbein stitch, so called because this style of ornament is found in Holbein's painting, is in reality only