shades of green, 2 of blue, 2 of yellow violet.

[Illustration: 179.--Border in Oriental Embroidery.]

The four ovals placed together are worked of four contrasting colours.
These ovals are composed of two rows of chain stitch. The outer row of
the first oval is dark red, and the inner one bright red. Following the
same arrangement, the second oval is of two shades of green; the third
of two shades of blue; and the fourth of two shades of yellow. The
knotted stitch in the centre is violet. The dots outside the ovals are
worked in satin stitch, and are alternately red, yellow, violet, and
blue. The stems are long stitches of black silk. The arabesque patterns
between those formed of four ovals are worked in chain stitch with silk
of two shades of brown. The colours of the ovals may be varied as much
as you please, but the brown shades of the arabesque patterns should
remain the same for the whole of the border.

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180 _and_ 181.--_Embroidery Stars_.

Materials: Fine linen; Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.'s embroidery cotton
No. 40.

These stars are designed for medallions, to be worked on linen collars
and cuffs. No. 180 is worked in successive rows of back-stitching, round
an open wheel; ladder stitch (see No. 81, _Embroidery Instructions_) is
worked round this, and a raised scallop in button-hole stitch forms the
edge.

[Illustration: 180.--Embroidery Star.]

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[Illustration: 181.--Embroidery Star.]

No. 181 is worked in raised satin stitch; the interior of the star is
filled with lace wheels.

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182 _and_ 183.--_Key Bag_.

Materials: Grey kid; grey silk; steel-coloured glace silk; purse silk of
5 shades of blue-green, 4 shades of brown, and silver-grey, scarlet, and
white; grey silk cord; grey glace silk ribbon.

This bag is made of grey kid, and lined with grey silk. The embroidery
imitates on one side a key formed of poppies, leaves, and stems, in the
upper part of which sits an owl, "the

[Illustration: 182.--Key Bag.]

[Illustration: 183.--Key Bag.]

bird of night." The poppies are worked with blue-green purse silk in 5
shades; the plumage of the owl is worked with brown silk of 4 shades in
satin stitch, the colours blending one into the other, as can be clearly
seen in illustration No. 182. The eyes of the owl are embroidered in
scarlet and white silk. Illustration No. 183