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RECORDS IN EMBROIDERY The recent exhibition of modern embroidery in London was full of new suggestions for ingenious women who liko decorative sewing, stated an overseas writer 1 . It had apparently been left to women of the 20th century to discover the amusement and charm of a record in stitchery. We can now furnish ourselves with a sewn family album of our children and their pursuits and holidays at all the different stages, which is sure to be a treasured possession later 011, not to say a family heirloom.
Ladv Phyllis Macßae, for example, showed at the Sunderland House exhibition a series of samplers, worked upon linen in cross and running stitches, which record the doings of her three children from tho perambulator onward. Other clever people have designed and sewn reminiscences or actual portraits of their country cottages, their Continental holidays, their summer borders, their rooms in town or country. Sometimes such pictures aro for framing and • hanging 011 the walls. Or, again, they may be made into chair seats and' backs elaborately executed in petit point.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22615, 31 December 1936, Page 3
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180FAMILY ALBUM New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22615, 31 December 1936, Page 3
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