A treatise on lace-making, embroidery, and needle-work with Irish flax threads . great variety oflace stitches used with the rings in forming different patterns. Onlythe flax threads should be used, however, as cotton is too hard andlustreless. LUNCH NAPKINS. PRIZE ARTICLE. [Contributed by C. B. Fitch, 5S Olive St., New Haven, Conn.] Materials : Barbours flax thread, No. 70, 3-cord, 200-yards spools,and \ yard square of round-thread linen for each napkin. Draw a few threads all around the napkins 2 inches from the edge,and hemstitch it for the fringe. One-half inch from this draw outthe thread
A treatise on lace-making, embroidery, and needle-work with Irish flax threads . great variety oflace stitches used with the rings in forming different patterns. Onlythe flax threads should be used, however, as cotton is too hard andlustreless. LUNCH NAPKINS. PRIZE ARTICLE. [Contributed by C. B. Fitch, 5S Olive St., New Haven, Conn.] Materials : Barbours flax thread, No. 70, 3-cord, 200-yards spools,and \ yard square of round-thread linen for each napkin. Draw a few threads all around the napkins 2 inches from the edge,and hemstitch it for the fringe. One-half inch from this draw outthe threads for \ inch, fold the napkin into an even quarter, andmeasuring \ inch from the folds, draw out the threads for the space 106 barbours prize needle-work series, of inch to form a square with the threads already drawn inthe corner. For No. i, quarter the square thus made with a half-inch band of drawn threads, and work as shown. For No. 2, thecorner square is divided into 9 small squares, and any design inheavy work maybe made in each little square, or in the 5, as in illus-. Lunch Napkin. — No. i. tration. It is easy to design different corners, which may be moreor less elaborate, and 6 of these, with different corner-designs, makea beautiful set. A handsome lunch-cloth to match the set may be LUNCH NAPKINS. 107
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