d representation of the work in process of
execution, shows alternately, ten threads withdrawn each way and six
left, with open spaces between. The arcs are worked over three
carefully laid threads, carried across from the middle of one bar to the
middle of the bar at right angles to it, the wheels on the other hand
are begun and finished at the same corner. Overcast the cut edges, and
hem-stitch the outside layer of stuff (figs. 61 and 62).

[Illustration: FIG. 110. CUT OPEN-WORK PATTERN. Fig. 111 in process of
execution.]

[Illustration: FIG. 111. CUT OPEN-WORK PATTERN. MATERIALS: Fil a pointer
D.M.C No. 20 or 30, Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C Nos. 15 to 50 or Fil a
dentelle D.M.C Nos. 25 to 50.]

GREEK CUT OPEN-WORK PATTERN (fig. 112).--After the foregoing
explanations, no difficulty will be found in copying the beautiful Greek
cut open-work pattern, illustrated in fig. 112. Here, we have in the
original, 48 threads drawn out in the middle, both ways, from one
straight bar to another, (these bars being darned) with open spaces
between; and in the lower and narrower division, 21 threads drawn out
each way. The cut edges, from bar to bar, are hem-stitched on both
sides, leaving four threads of the stuff between.

The long bars, in the second figure, are button holed on both sides,
those with the picots, on one side only.

[Illustration: FIG. 112. GREEK CUT OPEN-WORK PATTERN. MATERIALS:
Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C Nos. 25 to 50, Fil d'Alsace D.M.C Nos. 20 to 100
or Fil a dentelle D.M.C Nos. 25 to 50.]

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: NET STRIPE, IN IMITATION OF BRUSSELS LACE.]

Net and damask stitches.

Many net embroidery patterns and damask stitches consist of a
combination of ordinary running and darning, others of chain, stem and
cross stitch.

NET EMBROIDERY.--All these kinds of stitches can be worked on the
coarse Greek net, as it is called, as well as on the finest quality of
real Brussels net.

Stripes of net, finished off with button-hole edging, and ornamented
with one or other of the following patterns, make very pretty washing
laces and the like; net laid upon Irish point and converted by
needlework into a lace ground, makes an excellent substitute for a
hand-made ground, which demands much labour and time.

MATERIALS SUITABLE FOR NET EMBROIDERY.--The choice