or oblong loops, the knots must be made a little
distance from the mesh.

4 deg. HONEYCOMB LOOP.--Make an oblong loop, pass the thread round the
fingers, but not over the mesh as in plain netting, put the needle, not
into the loop of the previous row, but between the loop, just made. The
knot which is made in the same way as in plain netting, must be drawn
close up to the mesh; the two threads of the loop should lie side by
side on the mesh. The loops in honeycomb netting are six-sided.

5 deg. TWISTED LOOPS.--Pass the thread, as in plain netting, over the mesh
and fingers, but before letting the thread which is under the thumb go,
pass the needle from right to left under the loop you are making and the
thread, and only then draw up the knot.

Although in netting the loops cannot be formed in as many different ways
as in knitting or crochet, they admit of a certain variety, as the
following explanations will show.

PATTERNS PRODUCED IN NETTING BY USING MESHES OF DIFFERENT
WIDTHS.--Plain netting can be varied by making one row of loops over a
large mesh and one over a small one, or several rows over the large and
several over the small, alternately, changing the meshes at regular
intervals.

[Illustration: FIG. 617. PATTERNS PRODUCED IN NETTING BY INCREASING AND
DECREASING.]

PATTERNS PRODUCED IN NETTING BY INCREASING AND DECREASING (fig.
617).--Patterns of this kind are made by netting the meshes together in
regular sequence and taking up as many meshes as you have netted
together, or vice versa. You may increase and decrease in the same rows,
or at an interval of so many rows.

[Illustration: FIG. 618. LOOSE LOOPS IN CLUSTERS.]

Two sizes of thread should be used for this patterns. To show the
relation they should bear to one another, we instance: Fil a pointer
D.M.C No. 30 with Fil a dentelle D.M.C No. 50[A], or Coton a tricoter
D.M.C Nos. 14 and 30[A], with Coton a tricoter D.M.C No. 50[A], or
Coton a repriser D.M.C No. 25 with No. 100.[A]

Begin by 3 rows of plain netting with the finer thread over the small
mesh, followed by one row with the coarser thread over the large mesh;
then, with the coarse thread over the large mesh, one row, in which you
net every two loops together and one row, with two loops in every one,
so that the number of loops remains the same. These are followed by 3
rows of plain netting with the fine thread on the small mesh.

[Illustration: FIG. 619. LOOSE LOOPS IN CLUSTERS. WORKIN