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" In embroidery it is important to notice the holes caused by the needle and the puckering of the background where the embroidery draws it, as well as irregularities in contour caused by the necessity of drawing each embroidery thread between threads of... "
W.P.A. Technical Series: Art circular - Page 19
by United States. Works Progress Administration - 1937
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Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design

Art - 2002 - 274 pages
...in Index artists. A passage on rendering embroidery, for example, says: "Each thread is a cylinder.. .it is important to notice the holes caused by the...embroidery thread between threads of the ground.""" The magic of the Index renderings seems to lie in their uncanny power to make us feel that we are seeing...
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