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make them into a heavy tassel with the aid of supplementary threads.

[Illustration: FIG. 574.

BORDER WITH SHELL KNOTS.

MATERIALS: Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C Nos. 5 to 25.[A]

COLOURS: Vert-Mousse 471 and Rouge-Cornouille 450, or Rouge-Framboise
686 and Gris-Coutil 323.[A]]

BORDER WITH SHELL KNOTS (figs. 574, 575, 576, 577).--Fill the macrame
shuttles with the requisite length of thread. Knot the threads on, as in
fig. 520, in the following order; 1 double thread of colour 471, 6
double threads of colour 450, 2 of colour 471, 6 of colour 450, 1 of
colour 471.

From left to right and over the 1st thread: 1 double knot with the 2nd
thread; over the 4th thread of colour 450, and from right to left,
double knots with the 3rd, 2nd and 1st thread of the same colour = from
left to right: 1 double knot with the 6th thread of colour 450 over the
5th, and with the 3rd thread over the 2nd = from right to left: 5 double
knots over the 8th thread of colour 450 = from left to right: 1 double
knot over the 10th thread, 1 double knot over the 5th thread, 1 double
knot over the 1st thread = from right to left: 7 double knots over the
12th thread = from left to right: 3 detached double knots.

Then, from left to right, and subsequently from right to left = with 6
green threads: 2 double bars slanting over the 2 red threads (see the
top of fig. 577); unite the 4 red threads in the middle and make a shell
knot with them, fig. 575, consisting of 6 flat knots, fig. 576; take 2
threads on the right and 2 on the left, turn them down to the left and
right, and then from the wrong side to the right, over the threads that
come from the bars and close with a flat knot. On the sides, make
double bars and between each bar, 2 single chain knots.

[Illustration: FIG. 575. LARGE SHELL KNOT, OPEN.

WORKING DETAIL OF FIG. 574.]

[Illustration: FIG. 576. LARGE SHELL KNOT, SHUT.

WORKING DETAIL OF FIG. 574.]

[Illustration: FIG. 577. OPENWORK PART OF FIG. 574.]

Fill the empty spaces under the outside shell knots, with 9 flat double
knots; under the middle knot make bars of inter-crossed knots, of which
a clear explanation will be found in fig. 577.

To join two borders of the kind together, pass the thread of the second
border over the thread on which the bar in the middle of the outer
scallop is knotted.

FRINGE WITH SHELL KNOTS (fig. 578).--Entire length of the single
threads for No. 12 of Coton a tricoter D.M.C: 90 c/m.

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