Album de Broderie et de Filet [Album of Embroidery and Filet]
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A French needlework album, 2nd edition, by Madame Hardouin for the Manufacture Parisienne des Cotons L.V. et M.F.A. The first part covers embroidery: transferring designs, initials, plumetis, festoon (feston, Richelieu, Colbert), English embroidery, cut-work, flat satin stitch, and eleven ornamental stitches, with advice on needles and washing. The second part covers filet (knotted net) embroidery: making the net square and band with shuttle and mesh gauge, darning (Cluny) stitch, and photographed sample squares worked on nets A to D, plus Filet Italien and Filet d'Art. Thread numbers for the company's cottons are given throughout.
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- French
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- 50
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