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Stitching embroidery cards

1965?  Set of 20 embroidery stitching cards plus four extras.  Complete set.  Fables de La Fontaine.  Numbered 1-20.  DMC   $28.68 from Boulot Dodo, Avignon, France, through Etsy, Jan., '19.  Thirteen duplicates for $94 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, France, Sept., '18.

Now here is something unusual, even unique.  I did not know that there were embroidery stitching cards.  DMC is apparently a thread manufacturer.  These are advertisements for their thread, as the cards promise "solid colors, brilliant, durable."  I wonder what one would then do with the 24 fable panels embroidered with the help of these cards?  And would the sewing happen on the very card itself?  I learned on the web that "DMC has been developing award-winning fine threads and specialist yarns for makers since 1746, when artist Jean-Henri Dollfus joined forces with a pair of equally visionary entrepreneurs. Today DMC produces their natural yarns in Italy and France, collaborating with some of Europe’s most prestigious fashion houses, venerable art galleries, up-and-coming designers and needlecraft bloggers."

TH

FS

LM

Crow and Eagle

MSA

Two Mules

TMCM

TB

GGE

The Dog with His Master's Lunch

WL

OF

Cat and Rat

Monkey and Leopard

FC

GA

Little Fish and Angler

MM

Heron

FG