Petroplast beads decorated to harmonize with the color of the silk, a brown cord girdle weighted with these ornaments, picoted edges, and stitchery of silk floss the same color as the cord finish a garment of great beauty and dignity.
Fine embroidery silk was dyed yellow and old rose for the stitchery that finished the edge of the collar.
Johnson singular in his high appreciation of the value of some sort of stitchery to his own half of the human race, if their intellects unfortunately had not been too obtuse for its acquisition.
Marvellous indeed in quantity, as well as quality, must have been the stitchery done in those industrious days, for the "fine needle and nyse thread" were not merely visible but conspicuous in every department of life.
Unintermitting and arduous had been the stitchery practised in the creation of these coveted luxuries long, very long before the loom was taught to give relief to the busy finger.
There was stitchery here that she did not understand, but when she looked at some of the flowers, she could not help uttering the sentiment that the eyes of the daisies were not as mother could make them.
Bead Embroidery The actual stitchery in the old embroideries that are worked entirely, or almost entirely, in beads, is of an extremely simple description.
The Stitchery of Samplers, with a Note on their Materials "Sad sewers make sad samplers.
This was copied by her sister Mary in the following year, but in a manner which showed her to be but a tyro with the needle; nor much advanced in stitchery in the following year, in which she attempted the larger sampler which bears her name.
A Writer on the interesting subject of the stitchery of embroidered pictures and their allies, is confronted at the outset with a serious difficulty in the almost hopeless confusion which exists as to the proper nomenclature of stitches.
A specimen of stitchery of various kinds, much of it in high relief, and of purl work.
The stitchery on samplers of this date is almost invariably executed with silk, although in a few of the coarser ones fine untwisted crewel is substituted.
The details of the stitchery will be found on the following plates.
The woman's slow stitchery has to support probably as many claims, and yet it is always grudged as being too costly.
There is a great survival of this stitchery in Italy amongst the peasantry.
Now he opened his closed fingers and let her see that there was a scrap of pink chiffon edged with rose coloured stitcherylying on his open palm.
True, there was no stitchery of rose-coloured silk upon that fragment Raynor had kept hidden in the tobacco jar, but that didn't prove that there was none upon the frock from which it came.
One feature of decorative stitchery of this kind, is that it may also be constructional, that is, that where a hem is to be decorated, it need not first be stitched with the machine, the decoration does the work of the machine.
We do not, nowadays, spend long hours bending over fine stitchery that is destined for no really useful purpose.
A simple kind of stitchery is usually resorted to, and very often meets the case, and one may see little frocks and tunics of inexpensive materials, with quite a note of distinction given by the pretty stitching on the hems and bands.
Truth and gallantry prompt me to add, it is not in stitchery but in design that we lag behind the old.
Another phase of the same stitchery was working cotton and linen garments, hangings and quilts in a kind of quilted pattern with yellow silk.
In the centre of the wreath, in neat script in black thread, is quilted the name "Indiana Wreath," and all the stitchery of top and quilting is the very perfection of quilt making.
The black silk outline stitchery on linen lasted well through the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The materials, designs, and colours chosen for these quilts are given the most careful consideration, and the stitchery is as nearly perfect as it is possible to make it.
Very dainty stitchery was put in them, the stronger parts of the lines being in fine black silk, the finer and more distant being worked in human hair of various shades from black to brown.
The black silk outline stitchery or linen lasted well through the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Much fine stitchery was put into the fine white undergarments of that time, and the overdresses of both men and women became stiff with gold thread and jewels.
The machine has been a very doubtful blessing, as it has allowed even the art of stitchery in ordinary work to slide into the limbo of forgotten things.
Really exquisite stitchery was put into the graceful honeysuckle, the pansy, carnation, and rose clusters which decorated the dresses.
Another phase of the same stitchery was working cotton and linen garments, hangings, and quilts in a kind of quilted pattern with yellow silk.
The sunlight blazes on the gold stitchery till it sparkles with its pristine splendour; the hag in charge of it, Atropos-like, points out its beauties with a large pair of shears, while Lachesis spins a woollen thread alongside.
And when the stitchery is all rubbed off by the friction of years, still the garment hangs together, and is worn until it finally drops off piecemeal in squalid rags.
There is an opportunity through stitchery problems to show girls how a bit of appropriate handwork may be applied to an inexpensive ready-made garment, thereby enhancing its attractiveness and value.
It is not my object to go into details in regard to stitchery in this chapter but rather to give you some helpful suggestions in regard to knowing what to make and what colours to use.
A good way and something new for decoration is the feather-stitchery used like festoons on the hems.
I would sit with my stitchery on a fallen log in the sunshine, while they ran in and out o' th' grewsome hole.
The opposite selvages have hanging threads, remnants of the stitchery which originally seamed two breadths together.
Clues to the wrappings or blankets of which these breadths were sections are frequently furnished by traces of stitchery and broken threads on the side selvages.
In fact, it is the business of the successful embroiderer to know as much about design as she must about stitchery and color.
The carefully acquired skill of the earlier periods of our history became in succeeding generations almost an inheritance of facility, and easily merged into the elaborate stitchery called French embroidery.
The skillful needlework, the elaborate quilting, the stitchery and stuffing are worthy of respect, for the foundation of it all was great dexterity in the use of the needle.
Of course the trend of the decorative needlework was almost entirely in the direction of stitchery pure and simple, devoted to table linen and luxurious household uses, and this grew to a point of absolute perfection.
Quilts The domestic needlework of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, should not be overlooked in a history of embroidery, it being often so ambitiously decorative and the stitchery so remarkable.
It is a long step from this traditional past of its origin to the short past of the stitchery of America, where the little fingers of small Puritan maids followed the lines evolved by the generations of the earlier world.
The varieties of tambour work and open stitchery of various ornamental kinds were possible for all capacities.
This wonderful South American embroidery of past ages antedated many antique remains of the art of stitchery which we treasure with as wide a margin of time as lies between their day and ours.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stitchery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
