0; J, interlaced Oriental-stitch; K, interlaced
feather-stitch.

33. BACK OF INTERLACING SAMPLER.

34. SURFACE-STITCH SAMPLER--A, D, G, various surface stitches; B,
surface buttonhole; H and C, surface darning; E, Japanese darning, as it
is called; F, net passing; J, surface buttonhole over bars; K, surface
buttonhole over slanting stitches.

35. LACE OR SURFACE-STITCH AND SATIN-STITCH, much of it worn away. In
straw-coloured floss upon pale blue silk. Part of a dress. French. Late
18th century. (Mrs. L. F. D.)

36. SATIN-STITCH SAMPLER--Worked in floss, the stitch in various
directions, to give different effects. Incidentally it shows various
ways of breaking up a surface in satin-stitch. Compare with Illustration
38, which shows the effect of the stitch in twisted silk.

37. BACK OF SATIN-STITCH SAMPLER.

38. SATIN-STITCH IN COARSE TWISTED SILK.

39. SATIN-STITCH IN TWISTED SILK--Outlines voided. Worked in white and
occasional red and yellow upon black satin. Indian. Modern. (V. & A.
M.)

40. SATIN-STITCH AND, on the birds' bodies, PLUMAGE-STITCH--The ends of
the stalks worked in French knots; the veins of the leaves in fine white
cords laid on to the satin stitch. The outlines voided, and the voiding
occasionally worked across with stitches wide enough apart to show the
ground between. In white and bright-coloured silk floss upon a black
satin ground. Chinese. (Mrs. L. F. D.)

41. SAMPLER--Showing offshoots from satin and crewel stitches, and
incidentally illustrating various ways of shading. A, crewel-stitch; B,
plumage-stitch, worked in the hand; C, split-stitch; D, plumage-stitch,
worked in the frame.

42. BACK OF SAMPLER 41.

43. DARNING SAMPLER--Except in the background the stitches follow the
lines of the drawing, regardless of the weaving of the stuff. The
customary outlining of the pattern is here omitted, to show how far it
may, or may not, be needful.

44. DARNING--DESIGNED BY WILLIAM MORRIS. In delicate colours upon a
sea-green ground, outlined with black and white. Part of the border of a
table-cloth, the property of Messrs. Morris & Co.

45. FLAT DARNING--Solid and open, following the lines of a square mesh,
and stepping in tune with it; the outline voided; all in white thread.
Old German. (Gewerbs Museum, Munich.)

46. LAID-WORK SAMPLER, showing various ways (split-stitch and couching)
in which the sewing down may be done, and the various directions it may
take--vertical, horizontal,