Worked on fine wool using stem stitch with buttonhole stitch to lower edge.
Stitched in silk thread - tacked onto backing fabric.
(Sample taken from book if you click to link here: Sampler book)
Book cover c.1990
The background currently here is one stitched as a kit & now pending to make into a book cover.
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