INITIALS.
Materials.—Embroidery cotton, No. 70, white, and ingrain scarlet. These letters are particularly suitable for marking linen, and similar heavy articles. They should be done in satin stitch, with the white cotton, and then every part should have a fine scarlet thread run on each side of it,surrounding the raised part, and sewed closely over with the same ingrain scarlet cotton.
White embroidery cotton, No. 80. The work of these letters should be very delicately done, the eyelet-holes made with a coarse needle; the point of a stiletto would make them too large. These letters are suitable for handkerchiefs.