EMBROIDERING BOOK COVERS
A new pastime for women, and one that promise?, to be extremely popular, is the embroidering of book covers. It was introduced by a lacsy°recently from Europe, who is an adept in line artistic" embroidery, and who has been interested enough in the work to examine the various specimen? in the British Museum and in the Bibliotheque Xationale in Paris. The silk, satin or velvet is embroidered in colours, and gold and silver thread, in designs appropriate to the contents of the book, or according to the fancy of the embroider r, and it is then sent to the bookbinders. Beautiful effects may be produced by artistic lingers, and certainly, a few books with puch ornamentation will add as much to a lady's boudoir as an embroidered Lablecloth or a handsome pi^ce of bric-a-biac.
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Observer, Volume 9, Issue 529, 9 February 1889, Page 8
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137EMBROIDERING BOOK COVERS Observer, Volume 9, Issue 529, 9 February 1889, Page 8
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