uld always be taken on the braid, at the beginning and
end of every one.

MECKLIN WHEELS (No. 19). Work Venetian bars on a single thread, in one
direction, at equal distances. Then take a thread in the opposite
direction, and cover it also with button-hole stitch a little beyond
the first cross. Take another needle and thread and work a few
stitches, in the form of a circle, round each cross, so that by
slipping the first needle through every stitch, a foundation may be
formed for the button-hole work with which the wheel is made, a single
Raleigh dot being added between every two threads. The stitches taken
with the extra needle should form a sort of railroad for holding the
thread in its place. This mode of working wheels will be found very
superior to the old one of pinning down the circle of thread. When all
the wheels are worked, the stitches made with the extra needle should
be cut away at the back.

HENRIQUEZ LACE (No. 20). This stitch, and the one that follows it, are
invariably worked with the finest thread manufactured. Like English
lace, it has a better effect done on diagonal bars, than on those
which are taken straight up and down, or across a space. Make one
twisted bar across the space, then take a single thread nearly close
to it. Twist it twice round, then darn a spot on the two threads;
twist five or six times round, darn another, and repeat to the end. Do
all the lines in one direction first, making the spots fall one
beneath the other. Then begin the lines in the opposite direction,
taking the thread under in one way, and over in returning, whilst, in
order to keep the close bars apart, the thread must be twisted between
them. Care must be taken that the bars in one direction, fall between
the spots in the other.

CORDOVAN LACE (No. 21). Worked like the preceding; but with three bars
in each line instead of two.

VALENCIENNES LACE (No. 22). This stitch also is done with the finest
threads made. It is simple darning, of the closest and finest
description, done with so much regularity that it resembles cambric.

BRABANT EDGING is a name sometimes given to a union of the Brussels
with the Venetian edging. A row of Brussels is first worked, and on it
a row of Venetian. The diagram gives the effect of this arrangement.

Another variety of edging is produced by two or three rows of Brussels
being worked on one another. This is frequently seen in old lace; and,
with Venetian on the outer edge of the