ifference is only a difference of proportion.

[Illustration: THE WORKING OF A, B, C ON ORIENTAL-STITCH SAMPLER.]

[Sidenote: TO WORK D.]

The sloping stitch at D is worked in the same way as A, B, C, except
that instead of straight strokes with the needle you make slanting ones.

[Sidenote: TO WORK E.]

Stitch E differs from D in that the side strokes slant both in the same
direction. It is worked from right to left instead of from left to
right.

[Sidenote: TO WORK F.]

Stitch F is a combination of buttonhole and Oriental stitches. Between
two rows of buttonholing (dark on sampler) a single row of
Oriental-stitch is worked.

The stitch employed for the central stalk, G, has really no business on
this sampler, except that it has something of the appearance of a
continuous Oriental-stitch.

Oriental-stitch is one of the stitches used in Illustration 72.

ROPE AND KNOT STITCHES.

A single sampler is devoted to ROPE and KNOTTED STITCHES, more nearly
akin than they look, for rope-stitch is all but knotted as it is worked.

ROPE-STITCH is so called because of its appearance. It takes a large
amount of silk or wool to work it, but the effect is correspondingly
rich. It is worked from right to left, and is easier to work in curved
lines than in straight.

[Sidenote: TO WORK A, B.]

Lines A on the sampler, Illustration 29, represent the ordinary
appearance of the stitch; its construction is more apparent in the
central stalk B, which is a less usual form of the same stitch, worked
wider apart.

[Illustration: THE WORKING OF A, B, ON ROPE-STITCH SAMPLER.]

Having brought out your needle at the right end of the work, hold part
of the thread towards the left, under the thumb, the rest of it falling
to the right; put your needle in above where it came out, slant it
towards you, and bring it out again a little in advance of where it came
out before, and just below the thread held under your thumb. Draw the
thread through, and there results a stitch which looks rather like a
distorted chain stitch (B). The next step is to make another similar
stitch so close to the foregoing one that it overlaps it partly. It is
this overlapping which gives the stitch the raised and rope-like
appearance seen at A.

[Illustration: THE WORKING OF C ON ROPE-STITCH SAMPLER.]

[Sidenote: TO WORK C.]

A knotted line (C in the sampler, Illustration 29) is produced by what
is known as "GERMAN KNOT-STITCH," effective only in