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Title: Border Design Series: Section 01, Image 030
Identifier: hdrx_n01s01_00030
Description: This image, titled "Broderie Anglaise. For Edgings, Insertings, or Flouncings," includes text related to border designs. It is from Godey's Lady's Book, September 1853. The Border Design Series consists of fashion illustrations and texts, compiled by Nancy Rexford, from periodicals dated late 18th - early 20th century.
Source: Godey's Lady's Book
Rights: This image, from the Rexford Costume Research Archive, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Date: September 1853
Relation: Godey’s Lady’s Book. Philadelphia, PA: L.A. Godey, 1830-1898. , View this periodical at Hathi Trust , View this periodical at the Internet Archive
Cultural Context: North American , American
Inscription: (See Blue Plate on front of book) Material.- French embroidery cotton, No. 20. THIS description of work, now so extremely fashionable for every description of dress, is usually done on fine jeconet muslin; and, to prepare the pattern, either of the following methods may be used: Place the muslin over the pattern, taking care to keep it even and tight' then, with a fine camel's hair brush, and a solution of indigo or powder blue, mixed with gum-water, copy the outline of the pattern, and, to continue it, take care, after one length of the design is drawn, to place the muslin so that the pattern joins correctly. The other method, which is useful for thicker material Take the design, and, with a fine penknife or scissors, cut out the black parts of the pattern, place it over the material to be used, and trace it round the cut out parts as above directed; pierce the small eyelet-hole with a stiletto. When the pattern is prepared, tack the muslin on a piece of oil-cloth (green is the best color to worn on for all descriptions of embroidery); run twine round the outline of the pattern with the cotton used double, and join the open space, cut a small piece of the centre of the rounds and oval --- single cotton run round, and the edges--- the foundation. In the parts between --- and rounds, when there is only a small--- muslin, the whole should be overcast--- one bar between the open space--- for the ovals which form the scallops round edge, the diamonds of twelve ovals, and --- which form the vandykes. The --- pattern is worked in the same manner; -- of the overcast stitch, the open space-- sewn thickly over. A small portion--- pattern should be cut out at a time; --- the deign be worked on a fine material, --- No. 24 or 30. The designs we now give are for--- Inserting. The other two patterns on the page--- broidery

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