of material must be
determined by the quality of the net and the effect to be produced. For
a coarse make of net and a very marked pattern, the lowest numbers of
D.M.C cottons, or the narrowest braids, such as Soutache D.M.C Nos. 1,
2, 3 should be used; if the net be fine and the pattern a delicate one,
then the higher numbers of the following are preferable: Coton a
tricoter D.M.C Nos. 8 to 20, Coton a repriser D.M.C Nos. 25 to 70, Coton
a broder D.M.C Nos. 16 to 50, Fil a dentelle D.M.C Nos. 25 to 50, Coton
a broder surfin D.M.C Nos. 100, 120, 150. The latter must be adjusted to
the required size before being used, that is to say as many strands of
it removed, as is necessary in order to reduce it to the proper
thickness.

TRACING WITH RUNNING STITCHES (fig. 113).--Have your pattern traced on
linen or paper; tack the net upon it, and copy it carefully on the net
with running stitches. As in darning, the stitches must run first above
and then beneath, alternating in each succeeding row. At the turn of the
lines, the stitches cross each other, as shown in the illustration.

[Illustration: FIG. 113. TRACING WITH RUNNING STITCHES.]

NET PATTERN (fig. 114).--Here too the pattern is traced with running
stitches, which are run in on both sides of each row of meshes. The
thread is carried first to the right, and then to the left, under every
alternate bar of the net and out again. Between the first and second
rows, one thread of the foundation must be left uncovered. In the next
row, the thread is carried back again, so that it encircles each mesh.
In the third row, the thread passes under the same bar of net as in the
second, the threads touching each other. The fourth row is a repetition
of the first.

[Illustration: FIG. 114. NET PATTERN.]

NET PATTERN (fig. 115).--This consists of two rows of stitches. In the
first, the single stitches run diagonally from left to right, over and
under a mesh; in the second row the triple stitches, also carried
diagonally across a mesh, lie from right to left.

[Illustration: FIG. 115. NET PATTERN.]

NET PATTERN (fig. 116).--Begin with a double row, as in fig. 114; this
is followed by a row of cross-stitch, touching the others, for which the
thread has to be carried, first under one of the straight bars of the
mesh and then diagonally, across it. A second, similar row of stitches
backwards, completes the crosses. This can be further varied by the
introduction of a row of triple st