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The stuffs used should be as nearly as possible of one substance. In patchwork of loosely-textured material each separate piece of stuff may be cut large, turned in at the edge, and oversewn on the wrong side. The relation of CUT-WORK to inlay is clear in fact, the one is the first step towards the other. You have only to stop short of the actual inlaying, and you have cut-work.
The ceilings of both rooms were to be calico, and a dozen or so of seams were to be oversewn for that, the strips of matting were to be joined together and bound into squares, and after that a herculean task undertaken: the making of a huge mosquito-netted dining-room, large enough to enclose the table and chairs, so as to ensure our meals in comfort for the flies, like the poor, were to be with us always.
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