A treatise on lace-making and embroidery, with Barbour's Irish flax thread . **?? R!ZE NEEDLE VlDRK. BOOK. NOT]. Point Lace Fan. narrow braid, as shown, and filled with lace-stitches, are much moreeffective than medallions which are purchased by the yard. Thefilling stitches are varied, and Raleigh bars are used as a ground-work throughout, giving the work an exquisitely dainty while sub-stantial crisp appearance. For such lace-making the new lace threadreferred to cannot be surpassed. 98 BARBOUR S PRIZE NEEDLE-WORK SERIES. DRESS FRONT, IN BATTENBURG LACE. [Contributed by Miss Flora Kingsley,
A treatise on lace-making and embroidery, with Barbour's Irish flax thread . **?? R!ZE NEEDLE VlDRK. BOOK. NOT]. Point Lace Fan. narrow braid, as shown, and filled with lace-stitches, are much moreeffective than medallions which are purchased by the yard. Thefilling stitches are varied, and Raleigh bars are used as a ground-work throughout, giving the work an exquisitely dainty while sub-stantial crisp appearance. For such lace-making the new lace threadreferred to cannot be surpassed. 98 BARBOUR S PRIZE NEEDLE-WORK SERIES. DRESS FRONT, IN BATTENBURG LACE. [Contributed by Miss Flora Kingsley, Mansfield, Pa.]. Dress Front, in Battenburg Lace. Materials : Barbours Irish flaxthread, i spool each of No. iooand No. 150, and 6 yards oflinen hemstitch braid, narrow-width. Use No. 150 for whippingcurves and felling angles, andNo. 100 for rings and lace-stitches. For the rings, windthread 6 times around a pencil,slip off, and buttonhole stitches are so clearly shownthat no description is necessary,particularly as this has beengiven in No. 5 and No. 6. Theloop, between groups of 3 rings,is filled with cloth or darningstitch and the space just abovewith plain point de this are the buttonholeor Raleigh bars, and below thenet stitch, which is especially ef-fective for large spaces. Carrythe thread from point to pointacross, at even distances, and allone way, twisting back on eachthread and whipping along theedge of the braid to next point;Y^ inch is a good distance forordinary work. As a lace-maker of much ex-perience, I may say that I con-sider Barbours Irish flax threads,in
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