crewel-work

But for once she had the presence of mind not to show her dismay, and she helped Mrs. Gresley to change the crewel-work antimacassars with their washed-out kittens swinging and playing leap-frog for the best tussore silk ones.

Red Pottage 2004

_ -- This curtain, the property of Miss Killick, is a pretty example of a small crewel-work hanging.

Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving Grace Christie

The wide oak staircase leads you up first to the chapel-room, with its oriel windows overhanging the western door, its Italian cabinets, its rare china, its chairs and couches covered with crewel-work more than two hundred years old, yet with colors as fresh as on the day that Lady Zouch and her maidens set in the stitches.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

The case belonging to it is embroidered in fine crewel-work in (more or less) natural colours, representing figures, scenery, and a house in the background, and it suggests the needles of

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

FLORENCE WATERS would be glad if any one could tell her how to clean crewel-work.

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

Answers also received from BUMPKIN, TOBY, and A.J. MINNIE WALSHAM writes, in answer to FLORENCE WATERS 'question, that to clean crewel-work it should be washed in soap-suds, then rinsed out in salt and water, and, after drying it quickly, it should be smoothed out on the wrong side of the work.

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

The wave swept on and over us, and under its impetus we had meetings at different houses to study stitches and fabrics; we committed to unoffending burlap and coarse crash marvels of crewel-work, to be ultimately consigned to the depths of cedar chests or given away to servants contemplating matrimony.

Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911

From the little feminine trifles lying about, scraps of unfinished crewel-work and embroidery, and the fresh flowers in the vases, he gathered that it was still an apartment which Eve frequented.

A Comedy of Masks A Novel Arthur Moore 1909

When her brother entered the room she was fitfully engaged in perpetrating a crewel-work atrocity for one of her many chairs.

Captain Desmond, V.C. Maud Diver 1906

The strange wall-papers and chintzes, the crewel-work chairs, the mirrors, the light maple furniture, the case of moth-eaten humming-birds, the dull engravings of historical pictures, the old books -- the drawing-room table was covered with annuals and keepsakes, Moore's poems, Mrs. Barbauld's works -- all had a pathetic ugliness, redeemed by a certain consistency of quality.

The Altar Fire Arthur Christopher Benson 1893