stuff may always be visible between the
little tassels or balls.

Fig. 854 represents a portion of a curtain, embroidered on Flemish linen
in the colours indicated at the foot of the engraving; these may be
arranged according to the taste of the worker.

Malta embroidery is mostly done on coarse coloured linen fabrics or on
single thread canvas.

TRIANGULAR TURKISH STITCH (figs. 855, 856, 857, 858, 859). Amongst the
many pretty stitches for which Turkish embroideries are distinguished,
there is one in particular, which though apparently very difficult, is
in reality quite the reverse; it resembles line stitch upon straight
threads, only that in the East it is generally worked in diagonal lines,
each row requiring two journeys to and fro.

In the first, fig. 855, the needle must always be carried, first over,
then under two threads in a diagonal line and so on to the end of the
row.

Coming back, you pass the needle under the stuff and the stitch on the
right side, and bring it out at the bottom of the stitch; then you make
a back stitch over two horizontal and two vertical threads, pass the
needle over two straight threads, put it in behind the same, bring it
out again near the upper stitch and then insert it near the bottom
vertical stitch; after this you carry it to the second stitch lower down
and pass it over the same. Four threads should meet in every hole which
the needle makes. The third and fourth row should be worked in a colour
that forms a sharp contrast with the one in which the two first rows are
worked and constitute with these one complete row of stitches, fig. 856.

Figs. 857, 858 and 859 show how the same stitch can be worked in
straight, instead of in diagonal rows.

[Illustration: FIG. 855. TRIANGULAR TURKISH STITCH WORKED DIAGONALLY.
FIRST JOURNEY COMPLETED AND SECOND BACK, BEGUN.]

[Illustration: FIG. 856. TRIANGULAR TURKISH STITCH WORKED DIAGONALLY.
TWO JOURNEYS TO AND FRO FORMING THE COMPLETE ROW.]

The dark shade in fig. 859 shows the first row of stitches, the light,
the second, or rather the third and fourth, as four rows of stitches are
required to make one complete row of triangular Turkish stitch.

[Illustration: FIG. 857. TRIANGULAR TURKISH STITCH WORKED HORIZONTALLY.
FIRST JOURNEY.]

[Illustration: FIG. 858. TRIANGULAR TURKISH STITCH WORKED HORIZONTALLY.
FIRST JOURNEY BACK.]

PATTERN WORKED IN TRIANGULAR TURKISH STITCH AND GOBELIN STITCH (fig.
860).--The diagonal lines are