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Updated: May 4, 2025
They worked crewel bed hangings and cross-stitch and tent-stitch upholstery in the seventeenth century, and in still earlier times richly ornamented linens and other fabrics with flowers and scriptural subjects. Writing in reference to Queen Mary, the wife of William III, Sir Charles Sedley said: "When she rode in coach abroad She was always knotting thread."
How often had childish faces looked laughingly at themselves in her pewter plates? Her mother's chairs and sofa, worked in tent-stitch, which only saw the daylight twice a year what would become of them, and what common uses would they be put to in any other house? Her heart failed her when she thought of leaving these things.
A picture in tent-stitch is even more foolish than a picture in mosaic. It cannot come anywhere near to pictorial effect; the tesseræ will pronounce themselves, and spoil it. This kind of half cross-stitch worked on the larger scale of ordinary cross-stitch would look meagre.
There were slippers of purple velvet, embroidered with gold; others of blue kid, delicately traced in crimson lines; foxes heads stared at us in startling perspective from a scarlet ground; or black jim-crow figures disported themselves on orange tent-stitch.
"Aunt doesn't like me to go a-walking only when I'm going somewhere," said Hetty. "But I go through the Chase sometimes." "And don't you ever go to see Mrs. Best, the housekeeper? I think I saw you once in the housekeeper's room." "It isn't Mrs. Best, it's Mrs. Pomfret, the lady's maid, as I go to see. She's teaching me tent-stitch and the lace-mending.
"She does, core of my heart, she does, and is as ignorant of music as I am of tent-stitch." "She sings beautifully." "Just as birds do, against all the rules, and in defiance of gamut. Therefore, to come to the point, O treasure of my soul! I am going to take her with me for a short time, perhaps to Cheltenham or Brighton. We shall see." "All places with you are the same to me, Alphonso.
Green and tawny and red red and tawny and green; tent-stitch down here, and satin-stitch up yonder. And what good when done? There's a cushion-cover more in the world; that is all. Would God ah, would God, from the bottom of mine heart, that there were but one weary woman less!" "My dear Lady!" said Perrote, sympathisingly. "Ay, old woman, I know. Thou wouldst fain ask, Whither should I go?
"She does, core of my heart, she does, and is as ignorant of music as I am of tent-stitch." "She sings beautifully." "Just as birds do, against all the rules, and in defiance of gamut. Therefore, to come to the point, O treasure of my soul! I am going to take her with me for a short time, perhaps to Cheltenham or Brighton. We shall see." "All places with you are the same to me, Alphonso.
"Oh, dear, no! not to compare, Miss Grey, with one that we were just allowed the sight of not a mere pattern, but a finished specimen and I never saw anything so pathetic. I declare I was quite affected, and so was Miss Miskin. It was `By the Rivers of Babylon, most sweetly done! There were the harps all in cross-stitch, ma'am, and the willows all in tent-stitch I never saw anything so touching."
However, I took this as a sign of grace in my prodigal, and desired Anne to see the rooms prepared and that she should not attend me with my tent-stitch after dinner, as wishing to keep flint and steel apart, which your Ladyship will admit was a prudence to be desired. And so went down to receive the young men.
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