Boring Books Podcast - Art in Needlework

The only piece of embroidery entirely in cruel stitch, which I could find for illustration 15, is worked as it happens in silk. Or was the worker aware that in so working, she was doing anything out of the common? Another instance of cruel stitch is given in the divided skirt, let us call it, of the personage in illustration 72. Beautiful backstitching occurs in the Italian work on illustration 89, and the stitch is used for sewing down the applique in illustration 94. As always you'll find a free ebook from Project Gutenberg in the show description.