detached darned squares and Coton a
repriser, in Jaune-d'Or 667 for the setting of all the different parts
of the pattern.

[Illustration: FIG. 688. EMBROIDERY ON NETTING WITH DIFFERENT-SIZED
LOOPS. MATERIALS--For the netting: Fil a dentelle D.M.C No. 40. For the
embroidery: Coton a broder D.M.C No. 16, white or ecru.[A]]

EMBROIDERY ON NETTING WITH DIFFERENT-SIZED LOOPS (fig. 688).--The
netting, described and represented in fig. 620, with plain, oblong and
double loops, here forms the ground for the embroidery.

[Illustration: FIG. 689. SQUARE IN CUT NETTING.]

[Illustration: FIG. 690. LACE EDGING IN CUT NETTING. MATERIALS: Fil a
dentelle D.M.C Nos. 25 to 50, in three shades of one colour.]

In order to make the isolated loop stitches, the thread which forms the
cross in the middle must be carried to the middle of the bar, the loops
that form the stitches must be finished and the thread carried back to
the knot whence it started. It must then be taken three times backwards
and forwards over the foundation thread and the two bars of the
netting, when the stitches, into and over 3 squares of the netting,
should be made. The last row in the engraving shows the pattern in the
successive stages of its development.

[Illustration: FIG. 691. NETTING INSERTION MATERIALS--For the netting:
Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C No. 40 white or ecru.--For the embroidery: Ganse
turque D.M.C Nos. 6 and 12.]

SQUARE AND EDGING IN CUT NETTING (figs. 689 and 690).--Few patterns
admit of such a successful application of all the stitches hitherto
described, as the square and edging presented to our readers in the two
subjoined figures. On a netted ground of rather fine thread, we have in
the first place, linen stitch, in the border, worked in rather a coarser
thread than the ground; then raised wheels, buttonholed bars with picots
in the centre, plain wheels very close together, and long ribbed bars
worked in darning stitch.

The edging, to match the square, is worked in the original in pale
shades, in contrast to the square which is executed entirely in ecru
thread. The squares in the netted footing of the lace are loosely
overcast with pale Violet-Mauve 316, the same colour is also used for
the wheels in the outside edge, each of which fills a square, and for
the loop stitches round them; whilst the middle one of the three upper
ribbed wheels and the star are worked in dark Violet-Mauve 315. The
crosses in linen stitch, the three lower ribbe