ted it takes every bend and turn
more readily than the stiffer white material does.

Of all the different kinds of thread, so frequently alluded to in these
pages, the higher numbers of Fil d'Alsace D.M.C and Fil a dentelle D.M.C
are the best for the finer kinds of lace, and they all have the soft
ivory tint, we so admire in the old needlework.

[Illustration: FIG. 830. SPRAY IN NEEDLE-POINT. MATERIALS--For the open
stitches: Fil a dentelle D.M.C No. 200.--For the outlining: Coton surfin
D.M.C Nos. 120 to 150.[A]]

SPRAY IN NEEDLE-POINT (fig. 830).--Needle-point lace, also called
Brussels lace, requires the same preparatory work as Venetian lace; but
it seldom contains such a variety of stitches and openwork as the
latter.

The flowers are generally worked in one of the stitches, represented in
figs. 720 and 740; the outlines are less thickly buttonholed and the
stitches, set everywhere less closely.

Here also, the finished parts should be carefully covered with paper to
keep them from getting soiled.

The needle-point lace designs are ordinarily speaking more realistic and
as regards the composition, less artistic and severe than the Venetian
point ones.

The spray, represented in our engraving, is a specimen of an ordinary
Brussels lace pattern and of the stitches it is worked in.

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: APPLIQUE WORK ON SATIN SET WITH FINE CORD.]

Miscellaneous fancy work.

As the plan on which this book was constructed rendered a systematic
classification of the different subjects it treats of necessary, a
certain amount of miscellaneous fancy work, which does not come under
any of the previous headings remains to be dealt with in the present
chapter. In most cases the illustrations and the accompanying directions
are but an application to a practical use of the different kinds of
stitches already described in previous chapters and those who are
familiar with all these various branches of needlework will have no
difficulty in understanding what follows.

KNOTTED CORD (figs. 831, 832, 833, 834, 835).--The knotted cord
referred to in the letter press belonging to figs. 772 and 773 in the
chapter on Irish lace, comes under the present heading: in making it,
the fingers take the place of a crochet needle.

You tie two ends of thread or braid togeth