In truth, we wonder much over this production of the past, and not alone over the heroes who career so mildly in their armor of colored crewels on the linen background.
The materials of homespun linen and home-dyed crewels were the same.
I remember that some of my grandmother's "huz-ifs" still held threads of different colored crewels wound on bits of cardboard, and any embroiderer might envy the convenience of such holders.
It was not long before the over-and-over stitch demanded silks and flosses instead of crewelsfor its exercise, and silk or satin for the background of its exploits.
As a natural result, crewels were soon discarded in favor of silks, and natural extravagance, or national influence, led to the use of costly materials instead of the linens of English choice and preference.
Worked in crewels on India cotton, by Mrs. Gideon Granger, Canandaigua, New York.
The filoselles and crewels very soon get worn away from the surface of the material they are worked on.
The crewels are made of too soft a wool, and are not twisted tight enough, and the filoselles, not being made of pure silk, should never be used at all, pretty and soft though their effect undoubtedly is while fresh.
These crewels are nearly the same in substance and in their loose texture as the threads prepared from wool for tapestry weaving.
The softness of fine crewels is well shown near the more glowing tints of silk, velvet, and gold of the altar frontal.
It should be Paris first, and Saint Marcoul and the crewels afterwards, but anything to waste time and keep out of the brunt of the battle.
Faith, they that have the crewels might even wait till the King has come to his own again; they have waited long enough to learn patience while he was Dauphin.
Good crewels will always wash or clean without injury; but the cheap and inferior worsteds will not do so.
Embroidered in crewels on a silk ground of dead gold colour partly outlined.
In crewels of the best quality the colours are perfectly fast, and will bear being repeatedly washed, provided no soda or washing-powder is used.
The leaves may be worked in crewels, and the flowers in silk, or the effect of the crewels increased by merely touching up the high lights with silk.
I tried to seek peace with my crewels and my needle, and bethought myself of the bunch of anemones which in haste I had thrown upon a table in the chapel hall.
I inspected my threaded needles, but I could not find amongst my crewels the necessary tints.
Sometimes pretentious pictures representing events in public or family history, were embroidered in crewels on sampler linen.
The warp is simply a stout cotton twine or coarse thread bought in balls or hanks; while various cheap mill-yarns or what is known as worsteds or coarse crewels are used as filling.
Gertrude came in at the same time, in search of some crewels to match an embroidery pattern; so they were all together.
There were many little tables covered with books and baskets ofcrewels and silks, and easy-chairs of every description.
A large moderator lamp burned upon Mrs. Winstanley's favourite table--her books and basket of crewels were there, but the lady of the house had retired.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crewels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
