all worked with Chine gold and blue, and
gold and red. The stitch we have just described is most effective in
conjunction with other kinds of embroidery, as illustrated in fig. 860,
where it is combined with Gobelin stitch.

[Illustration: FIG. 859. TRIANGULAR TURKISH STITCH WORKED HORIZONTALLY.
SECOND JOURNEY BACK.]

The running foundation is divided into slanting squares; the diagonal
lines are all worked in gold and red. The squares number 9 stitches
inside, these are followed by a tenth which is covered by the first
stitch of the next square. Where two kinds of coloured gold thread are
used, one square will be framed on all sides by one kind, say, gold and
blue for instance, the next by the other, gold and red.

[Illustration: FIG. 860. PATTERN WORKED IN TRIANGULAR TURKISH STITCH.
MATERIALS: Chine d'or D.M.C. COLOURS: Gold and red, gold and dark blue,
gold and light blue, gold and green.]

The stalk that divides the two little leaves and has a small lozenge at
the top, is begun above the fifth of the 9 stitches; you make 5
stitches, but in such a manner as to end at the top of these 5 with the
stitch that runs in a diagonal direction over the threads, turned to the
inside of the stalk, so that the last stitch of the first row may form
with the first stitch of the second row, a triangle at the top of the
stalk, which is surmounted by the aforesaid lozenge.

The lozenges in Chine gold and light blue, of which there are three in
each of the half squares, besides those that terminate the stalk,
consist of 9 stitches, the first, extending over 3 threads, the second
over 5, the third over 7, the fourth over 9 and the fifth over 11; the
four next decreasing in a similar manner. The leaves in Chine gold and
green, on either side of the stalk, also begin with a stitch over 3
threads of the stuff, followed by 8, each increasing in length by one
thread on the side of the stalk, but all equal on the other, the last
extending over 12 threads of the stuff. After these 9, the subsequent 8
must decrease in the same manner by one thread on the opposite side;
then you make 4 more extending over only 3 threads and set the contrary
way to the others.

The zig-zag border and the small squares of 5 stitches within it are
worked entirely in Chine gold and red.

[Illustration: FIG. 861. TURKISH EMBROIDERY. MATERIALS: Chine d'or D.M.C
No. 30 and Coton a broder D.M.C No. 40.[A] COLOURS--For the Chine: Gold
and red, gold and dark blue