Identifier: dictionaryofnee02caul (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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f^P^f CYPRUS LACE.-IMITATION. THE DICTIONARY OF NEEDLEWORK. »57 varies in width from 25 inches to 35 inches, and is to be had of various qualities. The threads are round, like Russian Crash. See Linen. Mistress Quickly.—I bought you a dozen of shuts.Falstaff.—Dowlas, filthy dowlas ; I have given them away, &c. —Merry Wives of Windsor. Down.—The soft and almost stemless feathers of birds,such as swans, geese, eider ducks, &c, and employed inneedlework for quilting into skirts, quilts, tea coseys,dressing-gowns, &c. Before using, the feathers undergoa process of washing and purification, so as not only tocleanse, but to free them from any unpleasant odour.Down is sold by the pound, the white being regarded assuperior to the grey. That of the eider duck is the bestto be procured for ruffs for the neck, mulls, linings ofhoods, and trimmings for infants cloaks. Opera cloaksare also made of the white swans down. DOyley.—This was once the name of a woollen stuff,but is

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