crewels

Clara and Mrs. Purdie were matching crewels; and, sitting on the top step Flora instructed Kerr as to the composition of the tropical glacier they were drinking.

The Coast of Chance Esther Chamberlain

I once saw a large apron with bib and pocket bordered with squares worked in this style with bright dark ultramarine crewels, and with ribbon strings of the same colour; it had a handsome effect.

Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

The Stump Embroidery, in vogue at the same time as the crewel hangings specially treated in this volume, was full of symbolism, and naturally the same inspiration directed the worker in crewels.

Jacobean Embroidery Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam

Sketched from a piece of work in blue crewels on white linen, belonged to the late Lady Maria Ponsonby.

Jacobean Embroidery Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam

In one of the most wonderful creations of Vedder, the artist shows us the figure of a woman whose eyes are closed, and whose hands, lying in her lap, are inextricably entangled amid crewels and threads that bind and hold them.

The Life Radiant Lilian Whiting

The nearest thing to the Bayeux Tapestry in general texture and style is perhaps a twelfth century work in the Cathedral at Gerona, a little over four yards square, which is worked in crewels on linen, and is ornamented with scenes of an Oriental and primitive character, taken mainly from the story of Genesis.

Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

She put her handkerchief into a small bag of mauve linen, embroidered with white and pale-green crewels, and took up her parasol.

The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

Her mother had given her some bright crewels that she had brought from

Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs Carolyn Sherwin Bailey 1918

Some held crewels and crimped white cakes of wax, gayly colored reticule beads with a wooden spoon for a penny measure, and

Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

No other lovers came, and she lived her quiet life in her father's house, gathering garden flowers for the great, blue bowls in the parlour, teaching the catechism to small black slaves, and making stiff, old-fashioned samplers in crewels.

The Voice of the People Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909