"My dear Jane -- I wish you would just put by that everlasting tent-stitch, and listen to me for a few moments," &c. ❋ Various (N/A)
"She does, core of my heart, she does, and is as ignorant of music as I am of tent-stitch." ❋ Various (N/A)
I was seated in the garden with my tent-stitch, when out comes Pratt to say a young woman requested an audience of me. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
However, I took this as a sign of grace in my prodigal, and desired Anne to see the rooms prepared and that she should not attend me with my tent-stitch after dinner, as wishing to keep flint and steel apart, which your Ladyship will admit was a prudence to be desired. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
I receive visits upon idle days, and I shade my life as I do my tent-stitch, that is, make as easy transitions as I can from business to pleasure; the one would be too flaring and gaudy without some dark shades of t'other; and if I worked altogether in the grave colours, you know 'twould be quite dismal. ❋ Melville, Lewis (1925)
For the background we will use still another stitch, and when you are covering large spaces the work is to be done in tent-stitch. ❋ L. Lamprey (1910)
They worked crewel bed hangings and cross-stitch and tent-stitch upholstery in the seventeenth century, and in still earlier times richly ornamented linens and other fabrics with flowers and scriptural subjects. ❋ Unknown (1900)
The wonderfully wrought pictures in tent-stitch, for example, bequeathed to us by the 17th century, are painful object lessons in what not to do. ❋ Mary Buckle (1877)
What is known as tent-stitch (A in the sampler opposite) is a sort of half cross-stitch; its peculiarity is that it covers only one thread of the canvas at a stroke, and is therefore on a more minute scale than stitches which are two or three threads wide, as cross-stitch may, and cushion-stitch must, be. ❋ Mary Buckle (1877)
A picture in tent-stitch is even more foolish than a picture in mosaic. ❋ Mary Buckle (1877)
Her mother's chairs and sofa, worked in tent-stitch, which only saw the daylight twice a year -- what would become of them, and what common uses would they be put to in any other house? ❋ Hesba Stretton (1871)
There were slippers of purple velvet, embroidered with gold; others of blue kid, delicately traced in crimson lines; foxes heads stared at us in startling perspective from a scarlet ground; or black jim-crow figures disported themselves on orange tent-stitch. ❋ Unknown (1871)
Green and tawny and red -- red and tawny and green; tent-stitch down here, and satin-stitch up yonder. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)
There was a tent-stitch rug before the Dutch-tiled fireplace, and on the walls hung two framed prints, -- one representing the stately and graceful Duke of Marlborough; the other, the small, dark, pinched, but fiery Prince Eugene. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
There were Dutch chairs in the room, with tall backs and black leather cushions, embroidered in red and blue tent-stitch, and a dark oval mahogany table, with raised and chased rim, loaded with books. ❋ Unknown (1851)
"She does, core of my heart, -- she does, and is as ignorant of music as I am of tent-stitch." ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
He had taken up, and was examining with the eye of a connoisseur, a pocket-book of famous tent-stitch, when the door opened, and not Miriam, but a tidy looking housemaid entered. ❋ Unknown (1825)
Above the mantel were suspended the armorial bearings of the Heathcotes and the Hardings, elaborately emblazoned in tent-stitch. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)
She began therefore to question her about her accomplishments -- "Can you work tent-stitch neat, my love?" was her first inquiry. ❋ Jane West (1805)
