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Materials: Muslin; Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.'s embroidery cotton No.
24
[Illustration: 178.--Embroidered Edging.]
This edging is worked in broderie Anglaise or overcast stitch; the edge
in scallop button-hole stitch; the ovals and dots in raised satin
stitch. The stems are worked in slanting overcast stitch (No. 122,
_Embroidery Instructions_).
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179.--_Border in Oriental Embroidery_.
Materials: Purse silk of the following shades:--dark red, bright red, 2
shades of green, 2 of blue, 2 of yellow violet.

[Illustration: 179.--Border in Oriental Embroidery.]
The four ovals placed together are worked of four contrasting colours.
These ovals are composed of two rows of chain stitch. The outer row of
the first oval is dark red, and the inner one bright red. Following the
same arrangement, the second oval is of two shades of green; the third
of two shades of blue; and the fourth of two shades of yellow. The
knotted stitch in the centre is violet. The dots outside the ovals are
worked in satin stitch, and are alternately red, yellow, violet, and
blue.


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