IN SOUTACHE AND EMBROIDERY.
MATERIALS: Soutache D.M.C Nos. 1 to 3 and Coton a broder D.M.C No.
35.[A] COLOURS--For the Soutache: White, ecru or Jaune d'Ocre 677, and
Bleu-Indigo 322.--For the Coton a broder: Ecru, Jaune-Orange 444,
Bleu-Indigo 311, Gris-Tilleul 391 and 330, Vert-Pistache 319, 320 and
369, Rouge-Cardinal 348.[A]]

We need only point out that Rouge-Cardinal 348 is intended for the
little knot that connects the stalks of the flowers.

CHINESE SUBJECT (fig. 884).--This quaint and graceful composition,
copied from an interesting piece of Chinese embroidery, gives our
readers the opportunity of turning the different damask stitches,
already described in these pages, to quite a new use.

The kind of gauze which forms the foundation of the original work can be
replaced either by Spanish or Rhodes linen No. 2, by any stuff, in fact,
the threads of which can be counted.

The drawing has to be transferred to the stuff, and the different parts
are filled in with the stitches, clearly indicated in the illustration.

[Illustration: FIG. 884. CHINESE SUBJECT. MATERIALS: Coton a repriser
D.M.C No. 50, Or fin D.M.C pour la broderie No. 40 and Chine d'or
D.M.C[A].]

By the introduction of several colours, this pattern is capable of being
infinitely varied.

Thus, in the model before us, the neck and bulb of the flask, the
leaves it stands upon and those attached to the flowers in it, are
worked in Vert-Pistache 367, the handles, the ornament on the bottle,
and the triangular figure in the centre are in white; the little flower
on the left, the second on the right, the straight staff, the upper
wings of the butterfly, as well as the three leaves underneath the
triangle are in Bleu-Indigo 334; the first flower on the right of the
flask, the knot above the triangle, the lower wings of the butterfly and
the middle part of the bottom subject on the right of the engraving are
in Gris-Amadou 383; and Violet-lie-de-vin and Brun-Caroubier 357
alternate in the pointed leaves that support the flask; the former
colour recurs in the ornaments of the staff, and Rouge-Cardinal 347,
black and Gris-Tilleul alternate in the other details of the drawing.

For the setting it will be best to take Or fin D.M.C pour la broderie or
else Chine d'or D.M.C, used either double or single, according to
whichever the drawing seems to require.

FOOTNOTES:

[A] See at the end of the concluding chapter, the table of numbers and
sizes and the