with
Jaune-Rouille 364 365.[A]]

STRIPES OF EMBROIDERY WITH LACE INSERTION BETWEEN (fig. 220).--We
conclude this chapter, by showing how stripes of embroidery can be used
alone, or in conjunction, either with bands of open-work, or lace,
crochet, or net insertion. Such combinations are useful for ornamenting
aprons, table-cloths, curtains etc., every description in short of
household linen and of children's garments. One great advantage,
moreover, which stripes of this kind, have over larger pieces of
embroidery is that they require neither frame nor pillow, nor wearisome
counting of stitches, but can be worked in the hand, at all times and
places.

[Illustration: FIG. 220. STRIPES OF EMBROIDERY WITH INSERTION BETWEEN.]

FOOTNOTES:

[A] See at the end of the concluding chapter, the table of numbers and
sizes and the list of colours of the D.M.C threads and cottons.

[Illustration: STRIPE OF GOLD EMBROIDERY IN GOLD THREAD, PURL, AND
FLATTENED GOLD WIRE.]

Flat stitch and Gold embroidery.

The terms, flat stitch and gold embroidery, suggest as a rule,
needle-work upon rich materials, such as velvet, brocade, plush and the
like.

Nevertheless, a great deal of beautiful embroidery is to be met with, in
silk and gold thread upon quite common stuffs; Persian and Moorish
embroidery for instance, both remarkable for their delicacy and
minuteness, and executed upon ordinary linen, or cotton fabrics.

As a fact, the material is quite a secondary matter; almost any will do
equally well as a foundation, for the stitches described in these pages.
Flat stitch, and some of the other stitches used in gold embroidery, can
be worked with any kind of thread, but best of all with the D.M.C
cottons.

FLAT STITCH EMBROIDERY.--Decorative designs, and conventional flowers,
are the most suitable for flat stitch embroidery; a faithful
representation of natural flowers should not be attempted, unless it be
so well executed, as to produce the effect of a painting and thus
possess real artistic merit.

ENCROACHING FLAT STITCH (fig. 221).--Small delicate flowers, leaves,
and arabesques, should in preference, be worked either in straight flat
stitch (figs. 189 and 190) or in encroaching flat stitch. The stitches
should all be of equal length, the length to be determined by the
quality of the thread; a fine thread necessitating short, and a coarse
one, long stitches. The stitches should run, one into the other, as
shown