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36 inches 36-inch wide allow ANN MACBETH armhole back stitch band beauty Blanket Stitch blouse bodice braid bring the needle button button-hole stitch chain stitch chemise child collar coloured calico construction and decoration cotton embroidery thread cretonne curve darning double drawn threads edge Diag exercise fabrics fashion fastening finished flannel fold Diag fold inch deep front garment gathered girl gusset hem stitch herring-boning hole inch to inch knot LESSON linen loops MARGARET MCMILLAN mending yarn method myopia nainsook neck needlecraft normal vision over-seamed PATCH pattern pleat raw edges right side Diag right to left round rows satin stitch scrim seams second finger selvedge sewing sewn shaped shoulder silk skill skirt sleeve slip square stitchery straight line strip strong tacking tape texture thumb top-sewed tray cloth tucks turned unbleached calico waist width woollen worker wrist WRISTBAND wrong side yard of 36-inch yoke
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Page xiv - Beauty must come back to the useful arts, and the distinction between the fine and the useful arts be forgotten. If history were truly told, if life were nobly spent, it would be no longer easy or possible to distinguish the one from the other. In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful.
Page iii - McMillan says in her preface : " This book represents the first conscious and serious effort to take needlecraft from its humble place as the Cinderella of manual arts, and to show how it may become a means of general and even of higher education.
Page 13 - The fact is, that, of all God's gifts to the sight of man, colour is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. We speak rashly of gay colour, and sad colour, for colour cannot at once be good and gay. All good colour is in some degree pensive, the loveliest is melancholy, and the purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
Page iv - At every point the joint authors take the main events of growth into account, following the lines of natural development with a new and bold faith, and often in spite of tradition.
Page xiii - ... the imagination of the child is stirred and curiosity plays freely. Without curiosity, no conjecture is possible — a point to be noted from the start in all experimental work. The boy or girl who uses material and needle freely in independent design...
Page vi - In the hands of the real artists the common fabrics as well as the common duties take on a new beauty.
Page 88 - This is merely top sewing laid out flat and the stitches set close together. It is perhaps the most commonly used stitch in embroidery, and is suited for practically all materials...
Page xii - II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. XV. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII.
Page 88 - Care must always be taken not to work one set of satin stitches into another, as this gives a ragged or indefinite appearance to the work.
Page 54 - Motion ; that sense of beautiful form (lines, curves, mass, etc.) which depends on the muscular sensibility of the eye, is able not only to imitate and emulate the Type, but dreams and devises with interesting expansions fashions to fit the times.