st
stitch may cover 6, 9, or 12 threads, but never 8, 10, 12 or 14.
[Transcriber's note: 12, here, appears to be an error in the original.]

[Illustration: FIG. 317. TWO-SIDED INSERTION. ROW OF STITCHES FINISHED.]

[Illustration: FIG. 318. TWO-SIDED INSERTION, SHOWING THE BACK OF FIG.
317.]

GOTHIC BORDERS IN GOBELIN AND CROSS STITCH (figs. 319 and 320).--We
are indebted for both these pretty patterns, which are quite Gothic in
their character, to a visit we paid to the national museum at Munich,
where we discovered them amongst a heap of other old valuables, lying
un-heeded in a remote corner. Their simple graceful outlines render them
peculiarly suitable for the decoration of table-cloths, counterpanes,
curtains, etc. All embroideries of this kind should be finished off with
a deep fringe, made in the stuff itself, or knotted on to it or may be
trimmed with a heavy thread lace, of a wide width, corresponding with
the work in character.

The design may be worked either in one shade, as in fig. 319, or in two,
as in fig. 320, where all the outside stitches are worked in the darker
shade of the given colours.

[Illustration: FIG. 319. GOTHIC BORDER IN CROSS STITCH. MATERIALS: Coton
a tricoter D.M.C Nos. 6 to 12, Coton a broder D.M.C Nos. 16 to 35, or
Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C Nos. 3 to 15.[A] COLOURS: Rouge-Turc 321, or two
shades of Bleu-Indigo, 311 and 334, or two shades of Rouge-Grenat, 358
and 359 or two shades of Brun-Acajou, 300 and 402.[A]]

[Illustration: FIG. 320. GOTHIC BORDER IN CROSS STITCH. MATERIALS: Coton
a tricoter D.M.C Nos. 16 to 35. COLOURS: Bleu-Indigo 311 and 344, or
Rouge-Cardinal 346 and Rouge-Geranium 335, or Gris-Tilleul 391 and
331.[A]]

POWDERING AND BORDER. ALBANIAN SUBJECTS (figs. 321 and 322).--The
arrangement of colours for these charming patterns, of Albanian origin,
should be as follows; the dark-coloured crosses, red, the lighter ones,
alternately blue and green, the lightest, yellow.

[Illustration: FIG. 321. POWDERING. ALBANIAN SUBJECT. MATERIALS: Coton a
tricoter D.M.C Nos. 6 to 12, Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C Nos. 3 to 25 or
Coton a repriser D.M.C No. 12, 25 or 50.[A]

COLOURS: Rouge-Cardinal 347, Bleu-Indigo 322, Vert metallique 465,
Jaune-Orange 444, Gris-Brun 409.[A]]

In fig. 321, most of the stitches in every other diagonal row, are
worked in red, the others in green or blue; in the intermediate rows the
flowers are worked alternately, in green and red, or blue and red, and