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[Illustration: 166.--Pattern for Needlebook, &c.]
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167.--_Embroidery Pattern for Ornamenting Needlebooks, &c._
Materials: Coloured purse silk; silk or cashmere; beads.
The shuttlecocks are worked in raised satin stitch; the feathers in
point Russe; the battledores in very thickly raised double overcast; the
interior is filled with a netting worked in chain stitch or dotted
stitch; the flowers are worked in satin stitch and beads; the ribbon is
embroidered in applique, with a contrasting shade of silk ribbon.
[Illustration: 167.--Pattern for Needlebook, &c.]
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168 _and_ 169.--_Travelling Bag_
Materials: 20 inches of Java canvas; single Berlin wool of 2 shades of a
pretty green; 2 shades of bronze colour and white; floss silk--white,
brown, and 2 shades of yellow; purse silk--black, yellow, cerise, blue,
and grey; steel beads; brown silk fancy braid.
[Illustration: 168.--Travelling Bag.]
This pattern is of the ordinary shape of travelling-bags, but it is very
prettily worked.


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