a pointer D.M.C
Nos. 10 to 30, Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C Nos. 15 to 40 or Fil a dentelle
D.M.C Nos. 25 to 70. COLOURS: Ecru and Brun-Caroubier 303.[A]]

[Illustration: FIG. 812. WORKING DETAIL OF FIG. 811.]

ARMENIAN LACE (figs. 811 and 812).--The dresses of the Turkish women
are often ornamented with flowers and leaves, executed in needlework
which take the place of fringe and braid trimmings and are often even
employed as adornments for the neck and arms instead of necklets and
bracelets in metal work; though, as such, they do not always accord with
our Western notions of good taste, the Armenian work is in itself, both
sufficiently interesting and easy of execution, to deserve description
here amongst other kinds of needlework that are adaptable to use. It may
be imitated with capital effect in strong stiff washing materials, such
as those indicated in our illustration, either upon a linen or cotton
foundation or upon plush or silk.

The thread is first drawn into the edge of the stuff; you then carry it
from right to left, determine the length of the squares, and working
from left to right make on this first thread as many knots as you have
room for.

Fig. 812 shows the formation of the knot, the manner in which the
thread, passing from left to right, forms a loop, and how to pass your
needle under the straightly extended thread and through the loop. You
leave a space of one or two m/m. between the knots, according to the
thickness of the thread you are using. Having covered the first thread
with knots, you return to the edge for the next row of knots, but
passing your needle this time under three threads.

The number of knots should be the same in each row, and the four sides
of the square should be all equal.

When the squares are finished they are edged with picots on the two
lower sides, as shown in fig. 812.

Thread of two colours was used for fig. 811, the squares being worked
alternately in Ecru and Brun-Caroubier and the picots, all in the latter
colour.

LACE AND INSERTION IN KNOTTED STITCH (fig. 813).--Excepting in the
case of the returning thread, the same stitches are used for the pretty
border and insertion given in fig. 813, as for the Armenian lace.

The stitches that form the insertion are attached, on both sides, to an
English braid, something of the nature of Rhodes linen, which is
open-worked before the knotted work upon it is begun.

As in the preceding figure, two colours are used alte