A Four Years’ Job

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 22, 21 October 1937, Page 5

A Four Years’ Job

Needlework Carpels The Hobby Of Well-known Hostesses "Dominion” Special Service.—By Air Mail. (By Fe.xelua.) London. September 24. PATIENCE is a virtue which the ■*" needlewoman to-day must possess if she wants to display her gifts to the full. If -she does, she won’t jib at a piece of work which may take her years to complete. What the good needlewoman of 'mediaeval time could do, so can she. Carpet-making? Why not? Lady (Frederick) Millbank is among several busy hostesses, one has hoard of lately, who is tackling a needlework carpet, for her home. She lias already been working for four years upon it and expects to take two more years to finish the job. ’This carpet is a beautiful copy ot one that, was embroidered by the granddaughter of the first Dulce of (.leveland and was used at Raby Castle lor some time before being sent to a museum The canvas of the present cnn>et: is an especially fine one sent from France. As Lady Millbank completes a section, it. is joined witli invisible stitches to the growing carpet. Another wellknown hostess has just finished a carpet; in gi'os point in a Persian design, and a third lias been working on one wil.li a most, unusual under-tlie-sea design of shells and fishes.