e made up by this design.

[Illustration: No. 38.--Butterfly Design for fine Battenburg Lace.]

No. 39.

DESIGN FOR INSERTION.

A very pretty design for insertion is here given. The braid may be
basted as seen in the picture, and then the bars may be made of single
threads, and of single threads over-wrought with button-hole stitches.
Or, any of the bars or other stitches described, may be used to connect
the braid and fill in the spaces. Tiny "spiders" are already used to
fill in the circles.

[Illustration: No. 39.--Design for Insertion.]

No. 40.

DESIGN FOR A LACE BORDER AND CORNER.

A great deal must be left to the ingenuity of the worker in filling in
this design, which is not of the orthodox modern variety but may be
readily transformed into that class by an adaptation of modern stitches.
With the methods of the latter well mastered, the worker will have no
trouble in bringing out the design just as it is illustrated; but she
may also by the exercise of a little judgment and taste substitute many
other pretty filling-in stitches for those here pictured.

[Illustration: No. 40.--Design for a Lace Border and Corner.]

No. 41.

DESIGN FOR A BUTTERFLY IN POINT LACE.

Another butterfly design is here given for point lace, though it may
also be developed in a larger size in Battenburg braid for decorative
purposes. The filling-in stitches are d'Alencon and Raleigh bars, point
de Venise and point de Bruxelles, and point d'Angleterre rosettes.

[Illustration: No. 41.--Design for a Butterfly in Point Lace.]

No. 42.

ITALIAN LACE.

This lace is of a conventional Italian pattern, and is filled in with
the Italian lace and ground-stitches, and Sorrento bars. The lower edge
is very daintily completed with a button-hole effect. The design is
simple, elegant, and popular, and may be wrought in Battenburg or the
finer braids, and in any width desired, the braid selected and the width
decided upon determining the use to which the lace shall be put.

[Illustration: No. 42.--Italian Lace (Half Size).]

No. 43.

MODERN VENETIAN POINT.

The engraving shows a reduced representation of a very elegant specimen
of modern lace--the reduction in size being necessary in order to
present the whole design. In making the lace, narrow braid and cord are
used for the foundation of the design, and then the filling-in stitches
are made and at the same time rings and buttons and bars and picots are
introduced.