Directions for making French raised worsted work
A needlework instruction booklet of 1880, attributed to Hattie B. Ellis and probably published in Massachusetts, meant for home embroiderers learning raised worsted work. The first picture shows a densely stitched floral border of roses and small blossoms around a dark textured centre, while the second shows a flower urn in engraved line and the third shows diagrams of shaded petal and leaf forms; a designer might take the dense floral framing and the shaded line-work as models for botanical borders and rendered flat ornament.
