ame colour. Each of the middle figures combines three clusters
of the two figures above it, and may be executed, either in a different
colour altogether, or in a lighter shade of the one employed in the top
row. The little star in the centre should be worked in dark red, or
black.

[Illustration: FIG. 81. OPEN-WORK INSERTION IN FOUR COLOURS.

MATERIALS: Coton a broder D.M.C No. 20, or Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C Nos.
15 to 30.[A]

COLOURS: Rouge-Turc 321, Bleu-Indigo 312, 334, Noir grand Teint 310.[A]]

OPEN-WORK INSERTIONS (figs. 82, 83, 84).--For each of these draw out
forty threads. Fig. 82 worked in white, and Rouge-Grenat clair 309,
comprises fourteen clusters, of four threads each. Begin at the top of
the big pyramid, so that the threads which you run in, can be more
closely crowded together.

[Illustration: FIG. 82. OPEN-WORK INSERTION.]

In fig. 83, the two rows of short clusters are worked in Gris-Tilleul
moyen, and, Gris-Tilleul clair, 392 and 330;[A] the pyramid of steps,
in Brun-Chamois moyen, 324;[A] the three inner clusters in Brim-Chamois
tres clair, 418. One figure consists of fourteen clusters, of three
threads each.

[Illustration: FIG. 83. OPEN-WORK INSERTION.]

Fig. 84 also is to be worked in three colours; the light squares in
unbleached cotton, the middle figure in Bleu-Indigo tres clair, 334, the
large squares on either side in Brun-Cuir clair 432. Each figure
contains eighteen clusters, of three threads each.

[Illustration: FIG. 84. OPEN-WORK INSERTION.]

OPEN-WORK INSERTION WITH SPIDERS (fig. 85).--The edges are to be
herring-boned, as described in fig. 39. In the middle, the so-called
spiders are made, over every group of four clusters. The thread that
runs out from the spider, passes over two clusters and under one, and
then three or four times, over and under the clusters, as in darning,
and so back, under the spider, at the place at which it was drawn in,
and then on, to the next four strands of thread.

[Illustration: FIG 85. OPEN-WORK INSERTION WITH SPIDERS.]

THREE-ROWED OPEN-WORK (fig. 86).--Draw out five threads for the narrow
stripe, and from fourteen to sixteen for the wide one. Each cluster
should consist of four threads. The narrow bands between, are to be
herring-boned on either side. The dotted line shows the course of the
thread, on the wrong side. Then unite each separate cluster in the
middle, with a back-stitch, as shown in the illustration, and finally,
join every