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Needlework As Art

Note 350 — Part 6.

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Rees’ Cyclopædia speaks of embroideries “on the stamp or stump,” as being so named “when the figures are high and prominent, supported by cotton, wool, or hair;” also in “low and plain embroideries, without enrichment between.” He speaks of work “cut and laid on the cloth, laid down with gold, enriched with tinsel and spangles.” Rees’ Cyclopædia, “Embroidery,” 1819.

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