G DETAIL OF FIG.
618.]

LOOSE LOOPS IN CLUSTERS (figs. 618 and 619).--These clusters of loose
loops are made in the following manner:

1st row--one loop, the knot of which must be a little distance from the
mesh; put the thread over the mesh and the needle through the loop where
the knot is; repeat this three or four times, making the loops all of
the same length. Then unite all the loops with one knot, carrying the
needle from right to left, round the loops, instead of putting it
through the loop of the previous row.

2nd row--make one loop over each loop of the first row, leaving out the
loops that form the cluster.

As may be gathered from the drawing, many different patterns can be
worked upon the netting in this manner.

[Illustration: FIG. 620. NETTING COMPOSED OF PLAIN, DOUBLE AND OBLONG
LOOPS.]

NETTING COMPOSED OF PLAIN, DOUBLE AND OBLONG LOOPS (fig.
620).--Netting composed of large and small loops is the kind generally
used as a groundwork for embroidery. The loops of it are straight;
diamond netting will serve the same purpose, but as it is less commonly
used we have given the preference to the straight.

The whole first row consists of a double and a plain loop alternately;
the second, entirely of oblong loops, which are made by passing the
thread only once over the mesh, and so, that in netting on the double
loop, the knot is brought close to the needle, where as, in netting the
plain loop, it hangs free; so that, as shown in fig. 620, all the loops
of the 2nd row are of the same length. In the 3rd row, which is like the
first, the plain loops should come between the small holes and the
double ones between the large holes.

[Illustration: FIG. 621. CIRCULAR NETTING COMPOSED OF LONG AND SHORT
LOOPS.]

CIRCULAR NETTING COMPOSED OF LONG AND SHORT LOOPS (fig. 621).--Make
thirty or thirty one loops over a large mesh with a very stout material,
such as Fil a pointer D.M.C No. 20, or a double thread of Cordonnet 6
fils D.M.C No. 30, then draw up the thread on which the loops are
strung, as tightly as possible, so as to form quite a small ring for the
centre, and fasten off.

For the next row, also made in coarse thread, fasten the thread on to a
long loop and make one loop into each loop of the first row, over a
small mesh. Use the same mesh for all the subsequent rows, which should
be worked in a finer thread, such as Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C No. 50 or
60.

If you want to avoid fastening on the thre