47 



3. This whitish-blue colour is due to formation of a pre- 

 cipitate, which wash several times with water oil a filter. 



4. Dissolve the precipitate in cold concentrated am- 

 monia. 



CHAPTER VII. 



Tusser Embroidery. 



Tusser silk, being lustrous and strong, is peculiarly 

 suitable for embroidery when reeled from the cocoon and 

 manufactured into floss. This new use of it has been 

 found by Mrs. Warclle, who by the employment of suitably 

 dyed shades has succeeded in obtaining very excellent 

 effects on a ground Tusser silk cloth, specimens of which 

 are in the collection, Nos. 50 and 52, lent by the Royal 

 School of Art Needlework, and No. 47, lent and coloured 

 by Mrs. Wardle, and worked by herself and the Leek School 

 of Embroidery. The old Indian print designs look re- 

 markably well in some of her colour combinations, as in the 

 antimacassars represented in Plate LV. and Nos. 50 and 52 in 

 the Museum collection. In every instance the use of violent 

 or crude shades has been avoided, and the effects are 

 singularly soft and pleasing. 



It can be also used in combination with mulberry-worm 

 silk on grounds of other material, and also to heighten up 

 the effects of crewel wool work, as well as in a variety of 

 other ways which will readily suggest themselves to em- 

 broidery workers. 



A good way is to print on the cloth designs of established 

 worth, and to embroider the designs so printed. (See 

 Plate LV.) 



Another way is that in which the Japanese are so ex- 

 ceedingly clever, to have a design worked out partly with 

 embroidery and partly in print colours. The effect is 

 excellent. 



The effects may be varied ad infinitum, and I commend 

 this mode as a valuable addition to the embroideress's art. 

 There is for it a mixed result, avoiding a monotony of 

 effect one so often sees in modern embroidery, and also 

 less monotony for the worker as well as a large scope for 

 her interest and skill. 



Further information of the new embroidery will be found 

 in a very interesting little manual recently issued, entitled 



