Close-up of a hand with white ornamental floral patterns across the back, fingers and wrist, on dark skin against a grey marble background.

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White ornamental henna-style design on a hand

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A hand with white ornamental designs drawn across the back, including a central floral motif with paisley-like leaves, a scrolling line running up the middle finger, and matching patterns on three fingers and the wrist. The linework is fine and detailed, with dotted and lace-like infill, rendered in white against the darker skin. The hand is photographed from above on a grey textured surface with a marble edge, with white nails completing the palette.

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Dear Ruth,

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The pattern book came back from the binder with the Bombay shawl still folded inside it, and I have been at the kitchen table since six trying to copy the border without tearing the tissue. You will laugh at me. The paisley drops are not drops at all once you hold them to the window; they are little teardrop leaves with a seed of dots packed into the belly, and each dot is pricked with the same needle Mother used on the Nottingham lace. I have counted forty-one of them on the corner alone.

Mrs Hollis from the chapel says the white paste the men buy from the chemist will hold the line if you thin it with rosewater and lay it on in the cool of the morning. I tried it on the back of the scrap sample, and the scroll went up the middle of the card like smoke off a funnel. I do not think I have ever been so pleased with my own clumsiness.

When the Clarion docks in March, bring the shawl home yourself. I want you to see the centre medallion, where the flowers open out like a fan and the lace runs off the edge into nothing at all. Mr Dunmore at the drapers swears no one can copy it by eye. I mean to prove him wrong before the wedding.

Give my love to Captain Ashby's cook, and tell him the sugar he sent was damp, but I forgive him.

Your loving sister, Edith

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