er at the ends.

To this you attach 5 large and 6 small pendants; the smaller ones are
begun with a Chinese knot, figs. 607 and 609, which terminates in a
double chain, formed into a ring knot.

[Illustration: FIG. 609. SMALL PENDANT OF THE TASSELS IN FIG. 604.]

[Illustration: FIG. 610. LARGE PENDANT OF THE TASSELS IN FIG. 604.]

These ring knots take the place, in macrame, of bead drops, in gimp
trimmings; when they are made of a double chain, you cut away 3
threads, when of a single, 1 thread, conceal the ends carefully inside
the knot, make a loop with the 4th or 2nd thread, fig. 608, and lastly,
fasten off all the ends with two or three invisible stitches.

Into the loop formed by the 4th thread, you hang 3 small ring knots,
made of a single chain, with a loop, top and bottom, formed of the ends
of the thread.

Fig. 609 represents the small pendant, of which six are required for a
tassel; fig. 610, the large one, of which there should be five. The
berry, or head of the tassel, is attached to a crochet, or knotted cord,
of which a description will be found in the last chapter but one of this
work.

FOOTNOTES:

[A] See at the end of the concluding chapter, the table of numbers and
sizes and the list of colours of the D.M.C threads and cottons.

[Illustration: INSERTION IN EMBROIDERED NETTING.--ORNAMENT WITH VARIOUS
STITCHES.]

Netting.

Netting is a handicraft, so ancient that it would be difficult to trace
it to its origin, or determine the date of its invention. There is
evidence to show that the making of nets for fishing and game catching
was as familiar to the earlier races of mankind as it is to us.

Practised in the first instance for the wants of life, it by degrees
developed into an art, in conjunction with embroidery, to which it was
made to serve as a foundation. The netting of every country, almost, has
a distinctive character of its own: that of Persia is known by its fine
silken meshes and rich gold and silver embroidery; that of Italy, by the
varied size and shape of its meshes and a resemblance in the style of
its embroidery to the Punto tagliato; whilst the netting of France,
known by the name of Cluny guipure, consists of a groundwork of fine
meshes with stiff close designs embroidered upon it, outlined in coarse
glazed thread.

Netting, which divides itself under two headings, netting proper, or
plain netting and net embroidery, has never yet gone out of fashion and