ed for net work can also be used for damask stitches, according to
the material and the kind of work. We will enumerate them once more:
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.[A]

This kind of embroidery is generally done with a very coarse needle, to
press the threads of the stuff closely together and make the light
spaces between, which appear in many of the following illustrations.

FIRST PATTERN (fig. 142).--Carry the needle in a slanting direction
over three threads and bring it out, from right to left, under three
perpendicular ones, then again slanting, over three threads, from left
to right, and out again underneath three horizontal ones, downwards from
above. Thus the first stitch lies across, from right to left, the
second, lengthways. On the wrong side, the stitch forms a regular
succession of steps.

[Illustration: FIG 142. FIRST PATTERN]

SECOND PATTERN (fig. 143).--This is worked exactly in the same manner
as fig. 142, only that the second row of stitches touches the first, so
that two threads enter and issue from the same hole.

[Illustration: FIG 143. SECOND PATTERN]

THIRD PATTERN (fig. 144).--Though at first sight, this stitch is very
like the Holbein or stroke stitch, it is very different in the
execution. It is worked in two rows, to and fro; in the first, you make
all the vertical stitches side by side in the width of the stuff,
drawing your thread very tightly, in the second, coming back, you make
the horizontal stitches in a straight line, at right angles to the first
stitches. On the wrong side the stitches are crossed; they in thin
stuffs, show through, and quite alter the appearance of the right side.

[Illustration: FIG. 144. THIRD PATTERN.]

FOURTH, PATTERN (fig. 145).--In the first row, the thread is carried
slanting upwards from right to left, over two threads, then downwards
under two. Coming back, the stitches must be set the opposite way, so
that four threads meet in one hole.

[Illustration: FIG. 145. FOURTH PATTERN.]

FIFTH PATTERN (fig. 146).--This is worked like fig. 145, only that the
stitches must cover three threads each way. In the second row, you take
up one thread on the right and two on the left, to form your stitches.

[Illustration: FIG. 146. FIFTH PATTERN.]

SIXTH PATTERN (fig. 147).--Here, the stitches form