ART EMBROIDERY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 21, 24 January 1917, Page 8

ART EMBROIDERY.

Some beautiful embroideries were recently on exhibition in London. Among the embroideries were heraldic panels. One's family crest or coat of arms embroidered in "proper" colours on a handmade • linen hemstitched, evidently intended to be used as a hanging. These ideas would serve well as library chairbacks or for cushion covers in the room most frequented by the men of a family. There were several quite simple panels, worked with linen threads, of pastoral scenes, a foreground of blue delphiniums, daisies, and little yellow wort with a turkey cock in. full sail, with all eteam up, then a lightly worked tree with black and purple berries, more flowers, and a deer feeding, then a tree, and lastly an ordinary farmyard cock en profile red wattles and tail. This piece of work was on hand-made undyed linen, and finished with a narrow drawn hem. All in a straight line like a frieze. -Needlework pictures were well shown,-and two were especially beautiful. They depicted winter trees bare of foliage, ' done in a medley of wonderful greys and brown eilks; the. sky a touch of blue and grey, with faded greens for the grassy foreground. These were admirable specimens of one : of the most difficult branches of needle craft.