then bring up your thread from right to left, over
four horizontal and under four perpendicular threads, back over the four
last threads, and draw it out beside the next cluster. The clusters, as
they now stand, are bound together in the middle, three by three, with
darning-stitches. The thread must be fastened in and cut off, after each
group is finished.

[Illustration: FIG. 78. OPEN-WORK INSERTION.]

OPEN-WORK INSERTION (fig. 79).--First bind the two edges with
stitches, in the ordinary way. At the last stitch introduce the thread
slanting, according to the dotted line, pass it under four horizontal
and three perpendicular threads of the stuff and draw it out; then over
three threads from right to left, and back under the same, from left to
right, and out again; over four horizontal threads, and, under and again
over, three perpendicular ones; for the next stitch, you again follow
the dotted slanting line.

[Illustration: FIG. 79. OPEN-WORK INSERTION.]

Then make the darning stitch over nine threads, or three clusters. At
half their length, you leave out three threads, first on the right, then
on the left, whilst in the other half, you, in a similar manner, take in
three; so that you have two darned and two undarned clusters, standing
opposite each other. Finally, you overcast the single clusters, and
connect every two with a lock-stitch, as shown in the accompanying
illustration.

OPEN-WORK INSERTION (fig. 80).--Draw out twenty threads, overcast both
edges with stitches, made over three threads. Then, make slanting
stitches, proceeding out from these, over three, six and nine threads
respectively, all three terminating in a perpendicular line, one below
the other.

[Illustration: FIG. 80. OPEN-WORK INSERTION.]

For the open-work, twist the thread five times, quite tightly round and
round one cluster, bring it to the edge, between the second and third
clusters, and connect these by means of six darning-stitches to and fro:
join the first and second clusters in the same way by twelve stitches,
and finish, by twisting the thread five times round the remaining length
of the first cluster. The second half of the open-work figure is
carried out in a similar manner over the third and fourth clusters.

OPEN-WORK INSERTION IN FOUR COLOURS (fig. 81).--Draw out, from
twenty-five to thirty threads. The outside figures are executed over six
clusters, of three threads each, in a dark and light shade alternately
of the s