Title:
Border Design Series: Section 01, Image 032
Identifier:
hdrx_n01s01_00032
Description:
This image, titled "Mandarin Sleeve and Collar in Broderie Anglaise," includes an illustration and text related to border designs. This is an article describing a Mandarin sleeve and collar in Broderie Anglaise, including a drawing of the design itself. The Border Design Series consists of fashion illustrations and texts, compiled by Nancy Rexford, from periodicals dated late 18th - early 20th century.
Rights:
This image, from the Rexford Costume Research Archive, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Date:
June 1852
Inscription:
MATERIALS.- Fine book muslin, and W. Evans and Co's. Boar's Head Sewing Cotton, No. 50, and Embroidery Cotton, No. 60. The sleeve, of which our pattern is given the full size, is made in the ordinary form of the Mandarin. Seven scallops would be sufficient for each. The design consists of a deep-waved Vandyke, worked in overcast stitch, and an inner Vandyke, worked in the same manner. Five eyelet-holes, of graduated sizes, are placed between the Vandykes of each scallop. These are made with a stiletto, and sewed round closely with Evans's Boar's- head Swing Cotton, No. 50. The embroidery cotton is to be used for the scallops, which are first to be traced, and then run with this cotton, until a raised surface is produce, to be afterwords covered with with button-hole stitch. The flower is made entirely made of a group of eyelet-holes, sewed round like those in the Vandyke, The stems to be sewed over, and the leaves worked with the embroidery cotton, in satin stitch, the veining down in the centre of each being marked by working from the centre to the side, until you have come nearly to the point, when the stitches may be taken completely across the leaf. The eyelet-holes above the sprays are made by piercing a small hole in the muslin, and working over it in the button-hole stitch. This kind of work should be firmly tacked on oil-cloth before it is begun.
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