The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-04-16

lHc VIII W sew SklllS together 10 keep
! themselves warm: and if the stitches
made any sort of pattern Gas coarse
stitching naturally would this was
embroidery.
The term Is often vaguely used to
denote all kinds of ornamental needle
work, and some with which the needle
has nothing 10 do. This is misleading.
though it is true that embroidery does
touch on the one side tapestry. which
may he described as kind of embroid-
cry with the shuttle. and on the other.
lace. which is needlework pure and
simpic-constIuction in the air" as the
Italian name has it,
The term is used in common parlancc
to express any kind OF superficial or
sup2rfluous ornanentation A poet is
said to embroidcr the truth. but such
use of the word hints at the real nature
Of the work - embellishments enrich
ment. If added. there must first of all
be something it is added to-the mate
rial. that is TO say on which the needle
work Is done. In weaving (even tapes
try weaving) the pattern is got by the
Interviewing of warp and wcft in lace,
too. 1t is got out of the threads which
make the stuff In embroidery it is
got by threads worked on n fabric first
Of all woven on loom. or it might be
netted. There is inevitably a certain
overlapping of the crafts.
Embroidery is merely an affair of
stitching. and the first thing needful
alike to the worker in it and the de-
signer for it is n thorough acuuaint-
1nce with the stitches: not of course
wi;h every modification of stitch
which individual ingenuity may have
devisad-it would need the space of an
encyclopedia to chronicle them all. but
with the broadly marked variety of
stitches which have been employed to
best purposes in ornament.
They are derived. naturally. from the
stitches first used for quite practical
and prosaic purposes. button hole
stitch. for example. to keep the edges
Of the stuff from fraying herring bone
to strengthen and disguise a seam:
larlng TO make good worn surface
and so on. The difficulty of discussing
them is greatly increased by the hap
hazard way in which they are COM
monty named. A stitch is called |
Greek" Spanish. ""Mexican" "South |
Kens:ngton" or what not according to
the country whence came the work in
which some one first found it. Each |
name it after his or her discovery. or
call 1t perhaps vaguely Oriental. and
so we have any number of names for
the same stitch. names which to diff
ferent people stand often for quite diff
rerent stitches.
When this confusion IL complicated
by the invention of n new name for
avery conceivable stitch or combination
oi thread strokes. or for each slightest
variation upon an old stitch. and even
FOR stitch worked from left to right
instead of from right to left. or for a
stitch worked rather longer than usual |
the task of reducing them to order
:eemS rather hopeless. In the so-called |
English work the stitches probably all |
came from the East Why rot drop |
titles and call stitches by the plainest
and least mistlkable names? 1t will |
he seen if we reduce them TO their ma
live simplicity that they fall into fairly
marked groups or families. which can
be discussed each under its own head.
=
Stitches may be grouped in all man
ncr of arbitrary ways-acco:ding to
their proyenance, according to their ef-
feet. according to their Use and so on.
The most natural way Of grouping
them is according TO their structure
rot with regard 10 whence they came
o1 what they do, but according to what
they are. This way they are worked.
This Is the plan that ii Is proposed here
10 adopt. A survey of the stitches is
the necessary preliminary either TO the
design or the execution OF needle work.
ilow'else suit the design to the stitch,
the stitch 10 the design? In order to
do the one the artist must be quite at
home among the stitches: in order TO
do the other, the cmhroideres must
have sympathy enough with the de.
sign to choose the stitch o" stitches
which will best render Il.
This is not the moment to urge upon
the woman The study oe design, but to
nrGc upon the designer the study OF
Certain stitches answe: certain pur.
DOSES and strictly only those.
The effective worker designer or EN- s
broidererl is the one who works with t
you cannot judge un- I
'css You know.
\ stitch may he defined rs the thread ,
'cft on the surface OF tho cloth after I
each ply Of the needle. And the simple.
straight forward stitches of this kind ,
are not so many rs one nigh. suppose.
may he reduced indeed to Il compara.
lively few types RS may be seen in the ,
'ollowing lessons. Philadelphia Rec. ,
ord. :
Tight Coiors For Spring Goats.
Cloth lackccs and coats Tor spring
nm very much TO light colors. or
'ourse. for practical purposes the short. 4,
ight-fitting taI-colored cloth iacket is