d wheels and the long
ribbed bars in darning stitch, are in Gris-Tilleul 392.

NETTED INSERTION (fig. 691).--This is a copy of a beautiful piece of
embroidered netting, to all appearance, several centuries old, and in a
state that rendered, even the most delicate handling almost impossible.

After several experiments, the best result has been arrived at, and the
Turkish cord in which the original is made, has now been manufactured
for netting purposes, as well as for other kinds of decorative work,
already alluded to, and referred to again later on.

The first foundation, that is, the actual netting, for a thing of this
kind, should be made in white or ecru thread, with very small meshes;
the pattern itself is embroidered on the netting with Ganse turque D.M.C
No. 12; this material, ecru and gold mixed, gives the work a glittering
and peculiarly elegant appearance, unobtainable in any other.

The execution is extremely easy, it being worked entirely in darning
stitch; but the drawing should be copied with great accuracy and the
wide braid very carefully sewn on with close stitches round the squares,
which are filled in with darning stitches made in Ganse turque No. 12.

Any netting pattern can be copied in this braid, and the simplest piece
of work of the kind is worth mounting on a rich foundation of silk,
brocade, velvet or plush. To give a single example, the insertion here
described and illustrated, was mounted on slate-blue plush and has been
universally admired.

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.--IRISH LACE WITH RAISED ORNAMENTS.]

IRISH LACE.

Irish lace, also known under the name of Renaissance lace, from its
having been first made in the sixteenth century, is an imitation of the
earliest pillow laces; it ought, properly speaking, to be called French
lace, having been invented in France and thence introduced into England
and Ireland.

It is composed of braid or tape, formed into figures, joined together by
needlemade, corded or buttonhole bars and fillings of different kinds,
or by bars alone.

The lace stitches and bars are almost the same as those used in fine
Venetian point, but they are executed in a coarser material so that this
section of our work may be considered as a preparation for the different
kinds of lace, to be described in the n