The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-11
PAINTING WITH NEEDLES.
Wonderful Work Done by the Nuns
Of st. Louis.


outside of Mexico, says the Illustrated
american. Their favorite material is
a heavy cream white satin, almost
rich enough to stand alone; and on
this they paint actual pictures with
their needles.
They use bullion thread only for
the scroll designs that outline the
cloth or garment, and these are par
ticularly beautiful in design, being
mostly copies of the scrolls that out
line the pages of the most noted of
the old illuminated missals. Their
speciality is the embroidering of faces,
which they reproduce with an accu-
racy and delicacy equal to the finest
miniature painting. On some Of their
pieces they have copied figures from
the best of the medieval stained
glass, but generally they are
more modern in type, reproduce
tions of faces and figures painted
for the purpose by the best artists
among them. One altar cloth. made
to fill an order from an English cdthe-
dral, was of the same cream white
satin with a broad border of gold
needlework in a design of oriel wind
ows, and set in the centre of each oriel
was a winged cherub's head, each one
studied after the face of o real child,
and each Of q different type. These
heads were about three inches in
diameter, and not the brush of the
most famous artist could have
perfectly reproduced their
silken curls, their tiny wings,
their rosy, dimpled beauty, and the
childlike faith and alteration in all
the limpid upturned eyes. An Ameri-
can archbishop has a magnificent
cloak that he assumes in the most
solemn part of high pontlfical masses,
which has an elaborote cruclfix em-
broidered down the back by these
nuns. The great cross is gold, of
course, and upon it hangs a white
Christ of great beauty. The body is
as slim and fair as BELTS the lamb
offered up in the great sacrifice, and
the face is one of enchanting lowell
ness.
The soft hair of golden chestnut
hangs from under the crown of thorns
in waves that it seems onecould touch
and lift; a faint color tinges the face
and lips, and from under the droopen
lashes shows a CLEAN from the blue,
sad eyes. Only actual demonstration
VI uhC SOHoOo OoUiul OOA OhO uA"o
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a brush. Inc mexican nuns also
have this talent for painting with the
needle, n can, TOO, make WITH hu-
man hair upon linen wonderful por-
traits that only the closest examine
ton can distinguish from etching.
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girls under collegiate instruction and
contend1ng for scholastic degrees, and
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h ysed To he nronhesied that women
would lose the loveliest qualities of
woInanhood in the strife and pursuit;
but the event has proved that such
baleful predictions were Without JUS
LITIGATION. OF course 1t is so. Whether
women compete with men IN trade
and industry, in public life, IN plat
form debate or n the realm OF knowl-
lose or imnair the charm and
the power of their womanhood. The
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