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Examples
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Mexican drawn-work, beaded moccasins and Indian blankets.
Peggy-Alone Mary Agnes Byrne
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And as she talked of those early times she worked at her fine linen "drawn-work" with bright, dark eyes that needed no glasses for all her eighty years and snow-white hair.
Stories of California Ella M. Sexton
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The ground-work is formed of rings and Raleigh bars, while the centers of the roses and their leaves are filled in in various fancy stitches which include the crosses and rosettes used in drawn-work, Sorrento bars, points de Venise and Bruxelles, d'Alençon bars, etc., etc.
The Art of Modern Lace Making The Butterick Publishing Co.
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They are much like the wheels used in drawn work -- indeed, many of the stitches used in lace are identical with those used in drawn-work.
The Art of Modern Lace Making The Butterick Publishing Co.
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Sorrento bars are here made and knotted at the center like drawn strands, or are connected by rosettes or "spiders" made in drawn-work style.
The Art of Modern Lace Making The Butterick Publishing Co.
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The effect is similar to one of the drawn-work hem-stitches.
The Art of Modern Lace Making The Butterick Publishing Co.
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It contained three beds with as many different colored spreads, queer little pillows, and drawn-work on one towel hanging on
The California Birthday Book Various
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The linen pillow-slips were as fine as those Señorita Isabella Fitch showed me, when she gave me the few highly prized lessons in simple drawn-work; and her cousin, Señorita Leese, had taught me hemming.
The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate Eliza Poor Donner Houghton
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We had white lace-paper on the shelves and we used drawn-work paper napkins.
Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart
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At the center of the cross is a large drawn-work wheel, while small Maltese crosses and half-crosses are made elsewhere in the work by the drawn-work method,
The Art of Modern Lace Making The Butterick Publishing Co.
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