This section is from the book "The Engineer's And Mechanic's Encyclopaedia", by Luke Hebert. Also available from Amazon: Engineer's And Mechanic's Encyclopaedia.
The enriching of cloth, stuff, or muslin, by figures worked thereon with a needle, with thread of gold, silver, silk, or cotton. The embroidery of stuffs is performed in a kind of loom; that of muslin by stretching it on a pattern already designed, and the thinner the muslin the better it is adapted to the purpose.
 
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