e fringes: Soutache D.M.C No. 3 or Lacets superfins D.M.C No.
4.[A]]

These netted edgings are generally made in unbleached cotton, because
the patterns afterwards embroidered upon them in coarse, white knitting
or darning cotton, show best upon it. The thread for this purpose should
be used double, and the pattern worked in darning stitches, made over 8
squares of the netting; the 8th knot is then encircled by a loop and the
thread carried down over 8 squares and a loop again made round the 8th
knot. After making 4 rows of stitches on the netting, cut 3 bars between
the rows of white stitches.

The row of openwork produced in this way has a very good effect and
greatly improves the look of the lace.

NETTED FRINGE (fig. 633).--Plain netting, pretty as it is, looks
rather poor, unless ornamented with embroidery of some kind. The double
netting, illustrated in fig. 633, will prove a welcome novelty. The
footing is worked in crochet, with braid, secured on both sides by chain
stitches.

Into every fourth of these chain stitches, net one loop, missing the 3
between. At the end of the row, turn the work and make the knot in the
middle of the 3 chain stitches, so that the 2 loops of netting cross
each other.

In the second, or rather the third row, the knots are again made first
into the front loops, into those of the first row that is; in the fourth
row, into those of the second row.

When the stripe is sufficiently wide, finish it off with tassels, made
of Soutache D.M.C No. 3. Instead of tying up the lengths of braid with a
thread, twisted round them and fastened off with a stitch, make 2 looped
knots round them with an end of the braid, where the neck of the tassel
should come.

[Illustration: FIG. 634. WIRE FRAME FOR EMBROIDERED NETTING.]

EMBROIDERED NETTING.--Embroidered netting, also known as Filet
Guipure, Cluny Guipure, and Richelieu Guipure, is a netted ground, with
patterns of one kind or another, worked upon it in a variety of
stitches.

IMPLEMENTS REQUIRED FOR EMBROIDERED NETTING.--Besides scissors,
needles and thread, a light steel frame is the only thing required, and
this renders embroidered netting very popular.

The needles should be long, and blunt; those called saddlers needles are
the best.

WIRE FRAME FOR EMBROIDERED NETTING (fig. 634).--The frame on which the
net is stretched should be made of strong iron wire, that will not bend
in the using. In shape, it may be square or oblong, accor