[Illustration: 156.--Cravat End in Raised Embroidery.]
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157.--_Lady's Purse_.
Materials: Russia leather; blue silk; black purse silk; blue silk
soutache; fine gold braid; and gold thread.
[Illustration: 157.--Lady's Purse.]
This purse is embroidered upon Russia leather; an oval-shaped medallion
is cut out in the centre; a piece of blue silk is gummed on under the
leather so as to show within the oval; both leather and silk are then
lined with calico and stretched upon a small embroidery frame. The front
and back of the purse are made all of one piece, the centre of which is
the bottom; after the embroidery is completed a piece of leather is
added on each side to give the necessary fullness. Four flowrets are
worked over the blue silk, with black purse silk, in raised satin
stitch, with a dot in gold thread for the centre. The stems are black
and the leaflets gold. The inner border round the oval medallion is
worked in gold braid, and the outer one in blue soutache. The network
upon the leather is formed of threads of black purse silk, fastened at
every crossing with a stitch of gold thread; the outer border round this
network is formed entirely of gold braid.
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