ng cord, letter _d_, and
knot on the threads. The cord forms picots along two sides of the
square; into which you fasten threads, letters _e_ and _f_, for the
single chain formed, on the two other sides by the knotting threads.

[Illustration: FIG. 596. WORKING DETAIL OF FIG. 595.]

The coloured threads for the flowers are knotted on as the pattern
requires it, taking the place for the time being, of those with which
the foundation is made, which are left hanging on the wrong side until
they are wanted again.

The top leaves of the iris shaped flower, are worked in two shades of
blue; the bottom ones, in three shades of red, the stalk and the leaves
in green, and the little stars, with which the ground is powdered, in
real gold thread.

When the ground is finished, you make the same openwork border at the
sides and along the bottom, as at the top and finish off with very full
tassels, hung on over 3 double threads and made of all the colours used
in the square, tied up with gold thread, fig. 596 letter _g_.

FRINGE WITH THREE ROWS OF TASSELS (fig. 597).--As this kind of fringe
is chiefly used for trimming carpets, curtains and furniture, it is best
to make it in the coarsest numbers of the materials indicated at the
foot of the engraving.

[Illustration: FIG. 597. FRINGE WITH THREE ROWS OF TASSELS. MATERIALS:
Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C Nos. 3 to 30, or Fil a pointer D.M.C Nos. 10 to
30[A]. COLOURS: Bleu-Indigo 312 and ecru.]

The pattern is so simple in its construction that it is sufficient to
refer our readers to fig. 528, for the knotting on of the threads and to
fig. 531, for the waved plait.

The little tassels between the knots, are made separately from the rest
of the work and fastened on by the thread with which you sew them
together at the top.

[Illustration: FIG. 598. MACRAME GROUND. MATERIALS: Ganse turque D.M.C
No. 12 and Coton a broder D.M.C No. 16. COLOURS: Rouge-Cardinal 347, or
Rouge-Cerise 3318.]

MACRAME GROUND (fig. 598).--The work represented in the engraving was
made for a purse and copied from a beautiful piece of Arabian stuff.
Ganse turque D.M.C was used for the light background and Coton a broder
D.M.C for the design. It is very easy to copy this pattern from the
illustration by paying scrupulous attention to the number of knots; we
do not therefore enter into any detailed description of the same, merely
referring the worker to figs. 528 and 596 and the accompanying
directions, for the