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CHINESE TEXTILES
and range in quality from comparatively coarse work
(actually about the equivalent of the average French-
knot embroidery) to work so fine that it is almost im-
possible to tell with the naked eye whether it is the knot
FIG. 19. MIRROR CASE
FLORAL PATTERN IN SILK-THREAD APPLIQUE
CH'IEN LUNG PERIOD
or the loop stitch. Knot-stitch embroidery is rarely found
on pieces larger than the squares or sleeve bands. On the
square illustrated in figure 17 it alternates in the design
with the satin stitch, and in figure r8 it forms the back-
ground as well as the design.
Some of the most striking examples of applique em--
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