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 386 NEEDLEWORK This section of Every Woman 's Encyclopedia will form a practical and lucid guide to the many branches of needlework. It will be fully illustrated by diagrams and photographs, and, as in other sections of this book, the directions given are put to a practical test before they are printed. Among the subjects dealt with will be : Embroidery Knitting Darning with a Sewing . Embroidered Collars and Crochet Machine Blouses Braiding What can be done with Lace Work Art Patchwork Kibbon Drawn Thread Work Plain Needlework German Applique Work Tatting Presents Monogram Designs^ Netting Sewing Machines etc.y etc. THE REVIVAL OF HEEDI^ECRAFT Continued /roMt pa^e S4, Part I By Mrs. R NEVILL JACKSON Author of "A History of Hand-made Lnce^'' etc. The Good Done by the Royal School of Art Needlework and other Institutions— A ** Period** Room should be Upholstered with ** Period *' Embroidery Work — The Place of this Class of Work in the Home Life of the Nation— The Italian Revival HThe revival in the taste for needlework of impecunious classes, but also in raising the good design and artistic colouring, which has shown itself in so marked a degree since the latter half of the nineteenth century, is due to two things. First, to the establish- ment of the Royal School of Art Needlework, and, secondly, to the formation of kindred associations, where people in unfortunate circumstances are assisted in helping them- selves to earn a livelihood. Chief amongst these associations is the Working Ladies' Guild, established by Lady Mary Fielding in 1877 ; bi-annual sales are held, and Princess Henry of Battenberg not only opens these sales, but since her presidency, in 1887, she has presided over a stall in the Decorative Art Department. The effect of all this practical interest is far reaching, not only in alleviating the poverty of poor gentlewomen, a class the least likely to standard of amateur needlework. A very high order of needlecraft is re- quired of the guild members, whether the class be in the art needlework, the plain, or knitting and fancy-work department, and workers are encouraged by special orders, or by suggestion and the lending of patterns, to labour only at articles that are saleable in shape and design. Many of the embroideries required for the Coronation of King Edward VII. were undertaken by ladies belonging to the guild, amongst the most interesting being the banner which hung in front of Queen Alexandra's seat at Westminster ; this has now been converted into a screen, and is in the private apartments at Windsor. The renewed interest in old furniture, carpets, pictures, and bibelots has been of great service to the adopt the clamor- Trunk box for trinkets or jewel'cases worked in petit point in natural nr>r»rprip+inn of what OUS methods of other ^°'°"^^^ ^°°'^- "«^'«h' 1° .T^es lined with white satin and bordered f ^^^^f fj ^°L fn with old gold galon is really good in