Ingredients
- 77 turkey twill
Directions
For a cloth where a rich effect of color is required nothing looks bet- ter than the old German or Russian cross-stitch work, with the patterns executed in blue and rich ingrain cottons. These colors are best as they are absolutely fast colors, and the old cloths, those copying the old styles, were always worked in these shades. By using strips of silk
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Turkey twill or blue linen between the borders, a bolder and richer appearance is obtained. Another style is to work on damask borders of grotesque animals with curling tails, similar to those seen in twelfth century missals. These are very uncommon, and look well worked in linen threads or washing silks. There are also handsome cloths in which a flowing, conventional, rather heavy pattern is worked on a band of blue linen in white linen thread. The band used is herring-bone, like the old Cretan work. Sometimes the family motto is worked all along the front of the cloth. This is ornamental and does not look obtrusive, when the words are written diagonally and separated by lines and some ornamental device. To finish the covers the sides are hemmed in blind stitch, and the ends heavily fringed by knotting in the colors used in the embroidery.