[Illustration: FIG. 134. NET PATTERN.]

NET PATTERN (fig. 135).--These star-shaped figures, their longest
stitch covering three straight bars and two meshes, the shortest, three
diagonal bars and two meshes, may like the above flowerets, be ranged
closely together in rows, so that four stitches, two horizontal and two
vertical ones, meet in one mesh. Cotton of two colours should be used,
in order that the figures may be distinct from each other: white and
unbleached are the best, in cases where bright colours would be
unsuitable.

[Illustration: FIG. 135. NET PATTERN.]

NET INSERTION (fig. 136).--These diamonds make a very pretty grounding
either set separately, or in a continuous pattern. The design is slight,
nevertheless, when it is worked in coarse cotton, the effect is
exceedingly handsome, especially if the inside, in addition to the star
here given, be enriched with ordinary darning-stitches, worked in fine
gold thread, as we have already mentioned.

[Illustration: FIG. 136. NET INSERTION.]

NET TRACERY WITH BORDER (fig. 137).--In order to bring out the pattern
and the colours, use instead of cotton, Soutache D.M.C, or Lacets
surfins D.M.C. Both are to be had in all the colours, given in the list
of colours of the D.M.C threads and cottons. The little border can be
used in conjunction with any of the preceding patterns, but care must
be taken not to let it get twisted in the working. To prevent this,
slip a coarse needle under the last stitch, and draw the braid flat over
it.

[Illustration: FIG. 137. NET TRACERY WITH BRAIDS. MATERIALS: Soutache
D.M.C No. 2 in Bleu-Indigo 334 and Rouge-Turc 321.]

BROAD NET LACE TRACERY (fig. 138).--The pattern of this pretty lace
must first be transferred to stout paper, or oil-cloth. All the leaves
and stalks, and the buttonholing round the open centres of the flowers,
are worked in a pale green, the two bottom flowers in Turkey red, the
star-shaped one in blue, the calyx in which the stalks unite, in dark
red, and the little bells, in the lightest green.

[Illustration: FIG. 138. BROAD NET LACE TRACERY. MATERIALS: Coton a
broder D.M.C No. 30, 35 or 40.--COLOURS: Rouge-Turc 321, Rouge-Cardinal
346, Bleu-Indigo 322, Gris-Tilleul 393 and Vert-Pistache 369.]

NET DARNING.--We conclude with some directions for darning net, a
valuable art, by means of which many a curious piece of old needlework
is preserved. Coarse and fine net are all darned in the same way.

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