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flowers; the fifth has charge of the open-work (jours) in the plat; the sixth unites the different pieces of the ground; and the seventh sews

Fig. 8.—Old Brussels (Point d/Angleterre). Middle of Eighteenth Century.
the flowers upon the ground (application). The master prepares the pattern, selects the ground, and chooses the thread, and hands all