ith lace stitches
consisting of fine button-hole stitches, very evenly worked over the
entire space surrounding the open holes.

To be effective the very finest black silk should be employed. This
pattern may be worked in applique by placing muslin over net, sewing all
the outlines in fine overcast stitch, and when finished, carefully
cutting away the muslin.

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208 _and_ 209.--_Slipper on Java Canvas._

Materials: Light brown Java canvas; green silk; green filoselle and
purse silk; green silk ribbon three-fifths of an inch wide; some
wadding; 2 cork soles.

[Illustration: 208.--Slipper on Java Canvas.]

This slipper is very pretty, and easy to work. It is made of light
brown Java canvas, and embroidered in point Russe with green filoselle.
It is lined with green silk, and slightly quilted. The soles are of
cork. The slipper is trimmed all round with a ruche of green silk ribbon
three-fifths of an inch wide, pleated in double box pleats. The heel is
turned down inside. No. 209 shows the pattern of the point Russe stitch
nearly full size.

[Illustration: 209.--Point Russe Stitch for Slipper (No. 208)]

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210 _and_ 211.--_Medallions in Point Russe_.

Materials: Coloured filoselle, cloth, velvet, cashmere, or silk.

These medallions can be alternated for ornamenting small covers,
cushions, borders, &c. They are worked with coloured filoselle in point
Russe, herring-bone stitch, coral stitch, and knotted stitch, on cloth,
velvet, cashmere, or silk. The middle oval of both medallions contrasts
with the colour of the ground, and must therefore be worked in applique
on the latter with herring-bone stitch, before working the outer border.
The wreath on No. 211 is worked in coral stitch; the knots, which
imitate small blossoms, in knotted stitch. The choice of colours is left
to the personal taste of the worker.

[Illustration: 210.--Medallion in Point Russe.]

[Illustration: 211.--Medallion in Point Russe.]

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212.--_Butterfly for Handkerchief Corner_.

Materials: French lawn or cambric; fine black silk.

This butterfly is worked in the finest black silk procurable, in order
more closely to imitate etching. It is worked in point Russe and scallop
stitch; the dark shaded scallops are worked in button-hole scallop
stitch, the stitches being taken very closely together, but not raised
by the