Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1918 — Copies the Antique. [ARTICLE]

Copies the Antique.

A simple form of cross stitching which really copies what is known as Italian “assist work,” offers a suggestion for the needleworker who is looking for a pillow or screen to go with an oak-paneled and oak furnished room. The work is done on a heavy round thread linen, with a della robbla blue cotton. Stiff cross-stitciPdesigns, with a suggestion of dignity to them, birds, trees, etc., are first outlined with straight and diagonal stitches of the whip iengh in black. After this the background is filled in with the blue cross stitches. Women of Fife, Scotland, have agreed to provide the labor for harvest- | ing the flax crop.