... great variety of stitches, and her work is good and the colours well chosen. The second prize is awarded to Mrs. Allmann, Alderley Edge, who sends a capital specimen of work in shades of madder-brown on myrtle-green satin. After this there is so great a falling ...

... together at the top, three or four more at wide intervals to keep out the lower part, and one, two, or more flounces from the edge upwards. Very much smaller tourmires are sometimes worn with short costumes; these are of horsehair or steel, and serve to ...