A treatise on lace-making, embroidery, and needle-work with Irish flax threads . broidery, the design is first stamped ortraced, then outlined in close buttonhole-stitch. The bars areworked by crossing the thread from one edge to the other, twistingthe thread around the bar thus formed, in returning, then working tothe next bar in close buttonhole-stitch, and repeating the makes the work neater than to leave the bars until the outliningin buttonhole-stitch is completed. When finished, cut away the material at the outlining, on thewrong side. 114 BARBOURS PRIZE NEEDLE-WORK SERIES
A treatise on lace-making, embroidery, and needle-work with Irish flax threads . broidery, the design is first stamped ortraced, then outlined in close buttonhole-stitch. The bars areworked by crossing the thread from one edge to the other, twistingthe thread around the bar thus formed, in returning, then working tothe next bar in close buttonhole-stitch, and repeating the makes the work neater than to leave the bars until the outliningin buttonhole-stitch is completed. When finished, cut away the material at the outlining, on thewrong side. 114 BARBOURS PRIZE NEEDLE-WORK SERIES. HONITON LACE. [Contributed by Miss LILLIAN S. CONVERSE, So. Worthington, Mass.] This pretty lace deserves to be better known than it is, so easily itis made, and so nice for many purposes. In the sample shown, leafor medallion braid was used, with a plain braid and picot design is first traced on a foundation, which may easily be doneby means of tracing-paper, and then the braids are basted in place,being drawn in on one edge to form the curves, and caught together. Honiton Lace. where necessary. The open spaces are then filled in by passingtwisted bars of thread across, more or less in number according tosize of space, the central point of intersection being darned byweaving the thread around, over and under the bars. Narrowspaces need only the bars across. Much latitude is given ones fancy in this work, which is adaptableto a great variety of uses. Either the white embroidery flax thread, DRAWN-WORK DOIEY. 115 size 8, may be used for it, or Barbours No. ioo, 3-cord, 200-yardsspool linen. For coarser braids or work, coarser thread should bechosen, care being taken to use a sewing-needle that will carry it without fraying. DRAWN-WORK DOILY. [Contributed by Miss SUSAN H. Mann, Greenfield, Mass.] Materials : a piece of fine linen 10 y2 inches square, and Barboursflax thread, white, No. 100, 3-cord, 200-yards spool. Leave for fringe 1 y inches around the edge; draw 3 th
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