olour-card consists of 450 shades about half of which are
fast dyes. See the list of names on pp. 572 and 573.

[4] By fast (bon-teint) colours are meant those which will bear ordinary
and repeated washing. There are only very few which are really fast, or
grand-teint, that is to say, which will resist the action of chemical
agents, amongst of these, the black, Noir 310, is quite indestructible.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PREFACE. Page

PLAIN SEWING
Stitches
Seams
Gathering
Sewing on cord and flaps 10
Button-holes 11
Sewing on buttons 12
Binding slits 13
Sewing on piping 13
Fixing whale-bones--Herring-boning 14

MENDING 15
Linen darning 16
Satin or twill darning 17
Damask darning 18
Fine-drawing 20
Patching 20

SINGLE AND CUT OPEN-WORK 23
Hem-stitching 24
Open-work patterns 27
Cutting out threads at the corners 39
Cut open-work 40
Patterns for cut open-work 42

NET AND DAMASK STITCHES 51
Net embroidery 51
Net patterns 52
Net darning 62
Damask stitches 63

WHITE EMBROIDERY 76
Stitches 77
Different kinds of scallops 79
Eyel