Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1869 — Embroidery Extraordinary. [ARTICLE]

Embroidery Extraordinary.

A hemaiikable fine piece of worsted embroidery on canvas, representing "Mary of Scotland Mourning Over the Dying Douglas,” lias been on exhibition during the past week in a show window on Broadway, New York. It was workedhy Mrs. James Bennett, of Brooklyn, a lady of unusual taste and artistic ability, who has devoted to it the principal part of her time during the last eight months. Its dimensions are 36 by 29 inches, and it contains 680,000 stitches, and 168 different colors. Fifteen richly dressed human figures, two horses, a dog, a group of trees, and a castle] are the principal features of the picture, which is worked in what is called “quarter stitch,” that is, the stitches are only one-fourth of the usual length; the best jVftlges, among the many who have lately examined and admired this work, suppose that it must have been done in Europe, inasmuch as very few' American ladies possess the skill or the leisure necessary to produce with . the needle so spirited and perfect a picture. The Whittemore Brothers pronounce it by far the most meritorious of the .more tfian five hundred works of the kind framed by them, and consider it undoubt , edly one of the finest pieces of embroidery ever produced in America. It is valued at $1,500, the sum refused by a gentleman on Twentieth street for a larger, but much more coarsely embroidered, copy of the same scene. —New York Tribune.