adding on and the taking off of threads.

MACRAME SQUARE (figs. 599 and 600).--Length of the single threads of
both kinds: 200 c/m.

Knot upon a ring consisting of one thread: * 1 thread of white
Cordonnet, 1 of Coton a broder colour 309, 1 of colour 358, 1 of colour
309 and repeat three times from *. (The embroidery cotton is to be taken
double.)

Begin with the light red thread and make: 1 single chain with 3 changes
of the threads, 1 single chain with the dark red thread with 4 changes
of the threads. Add, or rather thread, 8 supplementary threads in
succession on to the white thread, which in fig. 600, comes in the
middle of the group of knots, and over each of these supplementary
threads, make 2 double knots with the light red thread and 2 with the
dark.

[Illustration: FIG. 599. MACRAME SQUARE. MATERIALS: Cordonnet 6 fils
D.M.C No. 15 and Coton a broder D.M.C No. 16 or Fil a dentelle D.M.C No.
25 and Coton a broder D.M.C No. 30.[A] COLOURS: White, Rouge-Grenat 309
and 358, or Gris-Lin 716 and Rouge-Maroquin 3327 and 3329.[A]]

When all the red threads are knotted over the white ones, make crossed
bars with the red threads by themselves, thus producing a point at the
bottom of the leaf.

Then, over the first white thread coming from the right, knot all the
white threads on the left of it and in the last place, the cord itself,
over the 3 red threads.

Make the same series of threads on the left. This is succeeded by a
second bar of white knots, the last thread of which is left unknotted.
Make 4 double knots with the 8 white threads and close the square by a
double bar. Add a supplementary thread to the first bar, so that you may
have 10 threads coming from each side of the second bar and over these
you knot the red threads, which form a dark setting to the leaves.

[Illustration: FIG. 600. GRADUAL INCREASE OF THE THREADS. WORKING DETAIL
OF FIG. 599.]

When this is done on both sides, make 10 flat double knots with a
supplementary knot, taking 4 single threads for each knot, and
decreasing the number of knots successively to 2. At the point of the
inside square, knot the white threads over the red ones and turn back
the second white thread to serve as a cord to the first of the outside
bars. Join the first thread on the left and the first on the right, to
form a flat knot with them in the middle, the threads of which are then
passed over the red threads; the last white threads become the cords for
the s