over the whole surface of
the work, unless the lines of the pattern require you to depart from
this rule; as, for instance, in certain parts of fig. 864, where you
will notice stitches, carried over 7 or 8 threads; also in the borders,
fig. 865 and 866, where the stitches are arranged in a rather arbitrary
manner, in order to bring out the pattern more clearly.

Fig. 864 represents the fourth part of one of the subjects that make up
the design fig. 863; that is, four such, joined together, form one of
the squares of fig. 863.

[Illustration: FIG. 865. MOROCCO EMBROIDERY. SMALL OUTER BORDER OF FIG.
863.]

Figs. 865 and 866 are patterns of two little borders and an insertion,
suitable as a finish to fig. 863, which can be enlarged to any size by
the addition of other squares to those that are represented here.

[Illustration: FIG. 866. MOROCCO EMBROIDERY. BORDER AND INSERTION
SUITABLE FOR FIG. 863.]

Most of the stuffs, already so frequently alluded to in this work, can
be used as a foundation for this kind of embroidery, provided the right
working materials to go with it are chosen; Coton a tricoter or Fil a
pointer should only be used for the coarser stuffs, such as Rhodes linen
No. 1, or Russian linen and the different kinds of tammy cloth, whereas
the other kinds of D.M.C threads and cottons and especially the finer
numbers, are best adapted for embroidery on fine stuffs, such as Rhodes
linen No. 2, and Spanish or Algerian linen.

SPANISH EMBROIDERY (figs. 867 and 868).--Spanish embroidery consists
almost exclusively of buttonhole stitch, fig. 171, and flat stitch, fig.
221.

[Illustration: FIG. 867. SQUARE OF SPANISH EMBROIDERY. MATERIALS: Or fin
D.M.C pour la broderie No. 40, Coton a broder D.M.C Nos. 50 and 100, or
Fil a dentelle D.M.C No. 80.[A] COLOURS: Bleu-Indigo 312, 322, 334 and
Bleu pale 668.[A]]

The buttonhole stitches, for which the more subdued shade of the colours
indicated should always be taken, or else yellow, dark or pale, to match
the gold thread, are made over two threads of gold and follow the
outlines of the pattern, which should be more or less appropriate to
this style of embroidery. One of the gold threads always keeps the
inside of the line and follows it throughout in an unbroken course,
whilst with the second, the outside one, you form picots, folding the
gold thread over from right to left and catching down the loop by a
buttonhole stitch, which is introduced into the loop itsel