"Cutwork" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... feather-bed, so that it literally requires a ladder to ascend to the top of this mountain of bedding, and then it is difficult to crawl into it. There were a bolster and two pillows covered with velvet, which, with the sheets, were all trimmed with a kind of lace or cutwork. ...
— Brittany & Its Byways • Fanny Bury Palliser
... modern guipure. The sprigs, when made, are sewn upon a piece of blue paper and united on the pillow with "cutworks" or "purlings," or else joined with the needle by various stitches—lacet, point, reseau, cutwork, button-hole, ...
— Beeton's Book of Needlework • Isabella Beeton |
