Today I’m just going to point y’all to Italian Needlecrafts, which (in addition to selling Italian needlework supplies) has available free scans of a number of editions of two magazines from the early 1900s: Il Ricamo Illustrato and Il Ricamo. They contain all kinds of embroidery (cutwork, surface embroidery, drawn thread, cross-stitch, and more). I think the cutwork below is my favorite pattern from the magazines (it’s such an unusual subject for cutwork).
Il Ricamo Illustrato: August 15, 1926
embroidery for ducks 
Enjoying your posts….. Loved the link to the antique embroidery illustrations!
thanks, it’s always so encouraging to hear that people are enjoying my posts.
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