Source: CAULFEILD, Sophia Frances Anne and Blanche C. SAWARD (1882), The Dictionary of Needlework, London: L. Upcott Gill, p. 271.
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Ingrain Cotton
A sample of marking with ingrain red cotton (Caulfeild and Saward, The Dictionary of Needlework: an Encyclopædia of Artistic, Plain, and Fancy Needlework (Vol. IV), London, 1882.
Ingrain cotton is a nineteenth century English term for a coloured, usually red, cotton thread used for marking. For example, in Mrs Beeton’s Book of Needlework (1870), the author refers to coloured ingrain cotton for marking, while in Mrs Warren’s The Ladies Treasury from 1882 there are several references to “Messrs. Walter Evans & Co.'s Scarlet Ingrain Marking Cotton.”
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