Identifier: dictionaryofnee05caul (find matches)
Title: The dictionary of needlework : an encyclopaedia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework dealing fully with the details of all the stitches employed, the method of working, the materials used, the meaning of technical terms, and, where necessary, tracing the origin and history of the various works described
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Caulfeild, S. F. A. (Sophia Frances Anne), 1824-1911 Saward, Blanche C
Subjects: Needlework
Publisher: London : A.W. Cowan
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

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GLASS CLOTH EMBROIDERY THE DICTIONARY OF NEEDLEWORK. 445 invented by Howe, the following should be named—viz.,Wheeler and Wilsons Silent Automatic Tension Machine,Wilcox and Gibbs Automatic Machine, Grover andBakers, Singers, Thomass, the Florence, and the Wanzer.There ai-e several varieties of these Machines, includingthose pioducing Lock Stitch or Chain Stitch, and thoserespectively worked by hand or by treadle, and by one orboth feet. The hand-worked Machine is naturally moreportable than that which has a treadle. Amongst thelatest improvements in Sewing Machines, that distinguishedas the Vertical Feed should be named, wbich will sewelastic materials of many thicknesses, which needs nobasting, and which will not pucker one side of thematerial sewn. Another is the White Sewing Machine,wbich does not need an ordinary needle, and has a self-setting description of needle, and self-threading shuttleof its own. Sewing Silks.—Of silk thread employed for plain orFancy Needlework there

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