Smocking, fancy stitches, and cross stitch and darned net designs . Figure No. 1.—Pillow-Sham of Darxed Net. and twisted into meshes instead of being looped in knitting style as they were previous to the inven-tion of the machine. The latter was invented by John Heathcoat, the son of an English farmer; 48 SMOCKING, FANCY STITCHES,. Figure No. 2.—Section op Pillow-Sham. or, the design may be drawnon thick paper and the netbasted over it; or, if the netis coarse the design may befollowed by counting themeshes and inserting the nee-dle and floss accordingly; orthe design may be transferredto the
Smocking, fancy stitches, and cross stitch and darned net designs . Figure No. 1.—Pillow-Sham of Darxed Net. and twisted into meshes instead of being looped in knitting style as they were previous to the inven-tion of the machine. The latter was invented by John Heathcoat, the son of an English farmer; 48 SMOCKING, FANCY STITCHES,. Figure No. 2.—Section op Pillow-Sham. or, the design may be drawnon thick paper and the netbasted over it; or, if the netis coarse the design may befollowed by counting themeshes and inserting the nee-dle and floss accordingly; orthe design may be transferredto the net itself by black orcolored pencils, or darner must decide forherself which method ofholding the work she willuse. Some of the most ex-pert darners simply hold thenet loosely in their hands andcopy the design by eye floss, India flosswhich is of linen but lookslike silk, and ordinary darningflosses are all used for thiswork. Darned net is liked formany purposes, as will be ob-served by the variety of de-signs and illustrations given. but to France must be giventhe credit of introducing thedarned work by whichsome of its costliest net laceswere first made. From theselaces originated the industryof darning net by machineryand by hand, and in all gradesfrom fine silk •• blonde andBrussels n
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