... housemothers sewed patchwork in the intervals of spinning and weaving, anentirely different development of needlework art had taken place, beginning in Pennsylvania. Embroidery in America did not grow ... drawing outlines being followed by a back stitchery as regular and fine as ifdone by machine, looking, in fact, like a string of beaded stitches, and yet it was accomplished by a needle in CHAPTER ... gown, instead of being shrouded in their carefulcoverings in the deserted drawing-room, and my lady of the embroidery might more effectively exhibit them in the lights of a ballroom. In recording...